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“Zhovtogaryachy” or “zhovto-horyachiy”: how to write colors correctly in Ukrainian

“Zhovtogaryachy” or “zhovto-horyachiy”: how to write colors correctly in Ukrainian
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As a general rule, in Ukrainian the names of shades and color combinations are written with a hyphen. For example, black and white, pale pink, yellowish red, violet gray, yellow blue, etc.. In fact, we have two adjectives that need to be separated by a hyphen.

However, questions often arise with the word “hot”. Linguists tell us how to write color names correctly.

“Zhovtogaryachy” is the name of the color, not a combination of colors. That is, this word should be written together.

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The spelling also indicates the adjective " Linguists add that this is not an exhaustive list. Color names such as “blue-hot, white-hot, golden-hot, green-hot, black-hot and gray-hot” also exist in the Ukrainian language and are written together.



In fact, from any color that differs in brightness and intensity, you can form a new word by adding the component " hot" And such adjectives need to be written together, and not because of a hyphen.

So, let's summarize. Compound adjectives denoting colors: white-blue, gray-green, etc.. should be written with a hyphen. And adjectives with the component " hot"

For example:.

Veletnsky hot and hot watermelon is growing on the bed.

The evening sky was burning with blue-red and hot-hot bars.

Based on materials: invite.viber.com
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