Imagine meeting a really attractive Dutch woman or man. You date, you have fun and then you want to buy them flowers. You are standing in front of the flower lady and are desperately pointing at the flowers you want in your bouquet. You don’t want to end up making it a whole adventure with conversations like: “No, the one to the left. No below that. No, not that one either!”  Therefore I am going to teach you the Dutch words for all the colors I can think of.

Red  :  rood

Green  :  groen

Purple  :  paars

Black  :  zwart

White  :  wit

Orange  :  oranje

Blue  :  blauw

Yellow  :  geel

Pink  :  roze

Brown  :  bruin

Violet  :  violet

Silver  :  zilver

Gold  :  goud

Bronze  :  brons

All the colors that are lighter or darker get just like in English, the word light or dark (licht/donker) in front of them. For example:

Light blue  :  lichtblauw

Dark brown  :  donkerbruin