adjective
brown
A1
braun = brown, an ordinary color adjective. Gradable: comparative brauner, superlative am braunsten. It inflects for gender, case and number using German adjective endings (strong/weak/mixed declension). Not a participle. Common descriptive adjective for hair, eyes, skin, and objects. Adjective endings depend on the preceding article.
Examples
Sie hat braune Haare.
She has brown hair.
Das Brot war braun, weil es länger gebacken worden war.
The bread was brown because it had been baked longer.
Details
Mnemonics
Picture a brown chocolate bar to remember the colour
sounds like English 'brown' with an 'r' shifted
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Notes
Basic colour adjective, used like other German adjectives and inflected depending on case/gender.