Spanish Made Easy - Learn How to Talk about the weather/ climate in Spanish!
Hola amigos,
A quick guide for an understanding of phrases and conversations relating to the weather/climate.
So when you're talking to somebody, let's say you're speaking to a friend from Spain and you're discussing about the weather in your respective countries. There are different set of verbs you will conjugate here namely, Hacer and Estar. Both mean " to do" and "to be" respectively.
Now this verb "Estar" has another name in Spanish with the same meaning. That verb is called "Ser". Both these verbs mean "to be". But there are vast differences between the both, that many people fail to distinguish, Also, they fail to understand where it's usually applied. I shall make a separate post for this using lucid language so that you're able to comprehend it rather in an informal language.
So for this post you need to remember the following verbs :
1. Hacer - to do/ to make.
2. Estar - to be.
So I shall now, post the weather related vocabulary and then accordingly show you how these verbs above are applied in general conversations.
Nouns:
El sol - The sun
Las nubes - The clouds
La niebla (nee-ye-bla) - The fog
La neblina - The mist
La lluvia (yuuu-bia)- The rain
La tormenta - The storm
El trueno - The thunder
El relámpago - The lightning strike
El viento - The wind
El hielo - The ice
La nieve - The snow
El calor - The heat
El frío - The cold
La humedad - The humidity
La temperatura - The temperature
El pronóstico - The forecast
Sol - Sunny
Despejado - Clear skies
Calor - Hot
Húmedo - Humid
Frío - Cold
Fresco - Cool
Nublado - Cloudy
Lluvioso - Rainy
Gris - Gray/Overcast
Viento - Windy
Helado - Freezing
Adios,
Ritvik
A quick guide for an understanding of phrases and conversations relating to the weather/climate.
So when you're talking to somebody, let's say you're speaking to a friend from Spain and you're discussing about the weather in your respective countries. There are different set of verbs you will conjugate here namely, Hacer and Estar. Both mean " to do" and "to be" respectively.
Now this verb "Estar" has another name in Spanish with the same meaning. That verb is called "Ser". Both these verbs mean "to be". But there are vast differences between the both, that many people fail to distinguish, Also, they fail to understand where it's usually applied. I shall make a separate post for this using lucid language so that you're able to comprehend it rather in an informal language.
So for this post you need to remember the following verbs :
1. Hacer - to do/ to make.
2. Estar - to be.
So I shall now, post the weather related vocabulary and then accordingly show you how these verbs above are applied in general conversations.
Nouns:
Adjectives:
In Spanish, Weather is called "tiempo". But so do we call time as "tiempo". Just so that you remember the difference, in Spanish when we ask somebody the time, we say we ask "que hora es?" and when we ask about the weather it's "que tiempo hace?
HACER
Meaning: to do or make.
However, hacer used idiomatically for the weather takes on the meaning "it is". This is used in the 3rd person form. If you can recollect the "e" in the 3rd person in ER verbs.
I shall give a list of expressions for the same:
Que tiempo hace? - What's the weather like?
Hace calor. - It's hot/ warm
Hace viento - It's windy
Hace sol - It's sunny.
Hace fresco - It's cool.
Hace frio - It's cold.
Hace buen tiempo - It's good. (Weather)
Hace mal tiempo - It's bad. (Weather)
The "hace" applied here would literally be translated as "it makes cold,it makes cool, it makes windy" but it's actual meaning is "it is".
ESTAR
Meaning: to be.
Certain expressions use ESTAR + an adjective. This is used in the 3rd person form. If you can recollect the "a" in the 3rd person in AR verbs.
Example,
Esta nublado - It's cloudy.
Esta lloviendo - It is raining
Esta nevando - It is snowing.
Esta humido - It is humid.
HAY (Aay. Literally pronounced as the alphabet "I")
Meaning: There is/ there are.
An expression also used to express weather.
hay lluvia - There's rain,
hay viento - There's wind.
hay nieve - there;s snow
hay neblina - there's fog
hay nubes - there's fog
hay relampago - there's Lightening
hay truenos - there's thunder
hay humedad - there's humidity
SINGLE VERBS
We could also refer to the weather in the 3rd person singular form.
Lets use the verb llover (yo-vay-r) means to rain.
In the third person, this would be conjugated as "Llueve".
Example: Llueve/nieva mucho en Londres - It rains/ snows a lot in London.
Summary:
1. You need to remember these 3 verbs to remember the expressions, namely: estar - esta, hacer - hace/hay.
2. Weather can also be called as "clima", which is climate.
3. Most of these expressions can be used interchangeably. Example, hace sol, hay sol.
Adios,
Ritvik
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