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"Červená, žlutá a oranžová jsou barvy podzimu."
Translation:Red, yellow, and orange are fall colors.
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You're right: the words "žlutá a" pretty much blend together in the audio at normal speed. However, the words are clearly separated in the slow audio (when given for dictation).
I wrote: ...are colours of the autumn. It was marked wrong. Is it better to say "autumn colours"?
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this is genetive there is no reason not to also accept colors of autumn, or colors of fall.
The "colors of" construction is also accepted, and has been for a few years.
I understand that. I only raised the question because it was presented to me as a set of tiles and I spent a long time looking for a tile for OF before I finally made sense of it. Thank you for your reply.
Indeed, that's why it is accepted. If some sentence was not accepted, you always have to report the complete sentence.
I am sure that I am not the first beginner who, on meeting this sentence in a section about the months was almost misled by the first word in this question. Is there a relationship?
An indirect one, the most likely etymology is from červ - a worm. The month when worms are plentiful.
However, the name of the colour might be derived from the same worms:
"Old Czech črvený is from Proto-Slavic čьrvenъ, which is a passive participle of čьrviti (“dye using červec”), where červec is a kind of worm used as a red dye (compare červ (“worm”))." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%8Derven%C3%BD#Etymology
Thank you. I find that very interesting. There is a word in Irish "cruimh" for worm. (pron. kruiv)
