Phraseologisms with color designations in the German linguistic picture

Phraseological units are a rather valuable source of information about the national culture of the people. Phraseological units with a color component occupy a separate niche, as new colors appeared with the development of society, and as a result, new names for them. This topic is considered in the works of such researchers as R.M. Frumkina, N.V. Serov, V.A. Ruschakov, V.G. Kulpin. Such a significant number of works devoted to color meaning, in particular color meaning in phraseology, indicates that this linguistic phenomenon has a unique lexical group of color categories, which is periodically updated. However, the color designation in German phraseology has not been studied fully enough in Russian linguistics. In this regard, the subject of the study is color nominations in German phraseology. Here, color definitions seem to be an important part of the German linguistic worldview. In order to explore the idiomatic features of the color worldview of the German language, phraseological units identified by continuous sampling in the monolingual dictionary "Duden" and the bilingual "German-Russian Phraseological Dictionary" compiled by A. Binovich and S.I. Konstantinova are analyzed. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that the variants of color nominations in the phraseological units of the German language have unique features. During the study of color and color designation, it was concluded that the idiomatic color pattern in the German language is a set of expressions with the nominations of basic and additional colors. Basic colors include blue, black, white, green, red, yellow, gray, as well as purple and orange. Comparative and semantic analysis showed the variants of the nominations of each color in the phraseological units of the German language. For example, "der gelbe Neid" is "black envy" in Russian, while "yellow" in German. Non–basic colors include colors with international significance, such as, for example, gold and silver, as well as colors borrowed into the vocabulary of the German language relatively recently - pink, brown, and others. The most common expressions were those with the “blau” nomination “schwarz” and “grn", which means that through these colors passes the most complete perception of the surrounding reality in German culture.