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Translation

paint

Word origin

From German Farbe ('colour, paint'), one of the Germanic roots Zamenhof took where the Romance languages offered nothing shorter.

Origin
German
Root
Farbe

Examples

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The blue paint on the wall is old now.

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He bought white paint for the door.

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Red paint covered the old wood.

is the substance in the tin. The colour itself is , and the two are not interchangeable: is fine, is not. To paint a wall is farbi; to paint a picture is .

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This word is part of lesson 29.