黄色
解説 Definition
yellows は yellow（黄色、黄色いもの）の複数形です。複数の黄色の色合いや、黄色い物をまとめて指すときに使います。
Multiple shades, varieties, or examples of the color yellow. The plural is used when different yellow tones, pigments, paints, or yellow-colored areas are treated as separate countable items.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
名詞 yellow に複数語尾 -s を付けた規則的な複数形で、語末は /z/ と発音します。yellow が不可算の「黄色」なら通常単数ですが、絵具や配色で複数の黄色の色調を区別するときは yellows になります。several yellows、compare the yellows のように、レモン色・山吹色などを並べる場面で覚えましょう。
Yellows is the regular plural of the noun yellow, made by adding -s, which is pronounced /z/ after the voiced sound at the end of yellow. Yellow often functions as an uncountable color name, as in “The wall is painted yellow.” It becomes countable when different shades, pigments, or samples are considered separately. Imagine an artist placing lemon yellow, golden yellow, and pale yellow beside one another: together they are several yellows. Phrases such as mix several yellows and compare the yellows clearly show this plural sense rather than one undivided color.
例文
The artist mixed several yellows for the sunset.
その画家は夕焼けのために数種類の黄色を混ぜました。
These yellows look bright under the gallery lights.
これらの黄色はギャラリーの照明の下で明るく見えます。
She compared the yellows before choosing paint for the kitchen.
彼女は台所用の塗料を選ぶ前に、黄色の色合いを比べました。
yellows の類義語・関連語
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yellows の語源・成り立ち Etymology
yellows は yellow の複数形で、yellow は古英語 geolu にさかのぼり、さらにゲルマン祖語 *gelwaz、印欧祖語 *ghel-「光る・黄緑色の」に連なります。『光って黄みがかる色』という感覚が核で、同根語に gold や yellowish があります。
Yellows consists of yellow and the regular plural ending -s. Yellow descends from Old English geolu and is related to Germanic forms reconstructed from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz. These forms are commonly connected with an Indo-European root associated with yellow, greenish-yellow, and shining colors. In modern English, adding plural -s allows the normally general color term to refer to distinct shades, pigments, samples, or areas of yellow.
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