After seeing our Spanish expression in weather terms –¿QUÉ TIEMPO HACE?-, we are going to describe the weather with the verb SER as you do in English with the verb TO BE, of course.
The first thing that needs to be told, is that this is a permanent description. Even though the weather changes, we are going to describe the weather in a general idea of a place; so, if in a place the weather is good normally, this is a permanent characteristic of that place. Let’s see the expression; this is gonna be way more familiar because is just like the English one:
¿CÓMO ES EL TIEMPO EN BARCELONA?
HOW IS THE WEATHER IN BARCELONA?
EL TIEMPO ES BUENO
THE WEATHER IS GOOD
◊ In our Spanish expression with the verb HACER, we were using nouns such as CALOR→HEAT, SOL→ SUN…and so on. Here, of course, we need to learn adjectives for the noun TIEMPO. Let’s see them:
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¿CÓMO ES EL TIEMPO EN BARCELONA? HOW IS THE WEATHER IN BARCELONA? |
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SUBJECT |
VERB SER |
ADJECTIVE |
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EL TIEMPO |
ES |
BUENO–GOOD |
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EL TIEMPO |
ES |
MALO–BAD |
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EL TIEMPO |
ES |
1.CALIENTE-HOT
2.CALUROSO–HOT |
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EL TIEMPO |
ES |
FRÍO–COLD |
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EL TIEMPO |
ES |
SOLEADO–SUNNY |
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EL TIEMPO |
ES |
LLUVIOSO–RAINY |
◊ Note:
- CALUROSO and CALIENTE means HOT. They are used to both to describe the weather indistinctly, but actually, CALUROSO refers to a hot climate and CALIENTE refers to a hot thing (to say it in an easy word). We can just use both without thinking much when talking about weather, but, just remember that when using the adjective HOT for a thing, you have to use CALIENTE and leave CALUROSO for weather description only.
So here we have it. We have already few keys to start describing the weather in our cities:
¿CÓMO ES EL TIEMPO EN BARCELONA?
HOW IS THE WEATHER IN BARCELONA?
EL TIEMPO ES MUY SOLEADO
THE WEATHER IS VERY SUNNY
Or:
¿CÓMO ES EL TIEMPO EN LONDRES?
HOW IS THE WEATHER IN LONDON?
EL TIEMPO ES MUY LLUVIOSO
THE WEATHER IS VERY RAINY
