mustakeltainen

Mustakeltainen is a Finnish color descriptor meaning “black-and-yellow.” The term is a compound adjective formed from musta (black) and keltainen (yellow) with the suffix -inen, and it is written as a single word in standard Finnish. It describes objects or organisms that display a combination of black and yellow coloration. The word inflects like other -inen adjectives, for example: nominative singular mustakeltainen, genitive mustakeltaisen, partitive mustakeltaista, and so on.

In use, mustakeltainen is common in biology to describe animals or insects with black-yellow patterns, in botany to describe plants, and in design or everyday description of color schemes. It conveys the presence of both colors without specifying proportion, tone, or pattern. The phrase can be used attributively, as in mustakeltainen lintu or mustakeltainen nauha, or predicatively, as in Lintu on mustakeltainen.

Notes: Mustakeltainen does not specify the exact shade of black or yellow, nor the arrangement of the colors (striped, spotted, or solid). For more precise descriptions, Finnish speakers may use additional phrases such as musta-keltainen raidallinen (black-yellow striped) or musta ja keltainen (black and yellow) to indicate specific patterns.