Language/Swedish/Grammar/How-to-Talk-About-the-Weather

How to Talk About the Weather

The Focus of this Lesson is on How to Talk About the Weather. 

Talk about the Weather (1)

Det är varmt och skönt.

'"It's nice and warm."'

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In this lesson, we'll learn to talk about the weather. In a previous series, we learned how to comment on the weather by saying things like vilket fint väder ("what nice weather"). This is an easy way of commenting on the weather because the adjective fint ("nice") can be changed to any other adjective that describes the weather. Let's look at some examples where we instead use the adjectives fult ("nasty") and underbart ("wonderful"):

1. Vilket hemskt väder."What nasty weather."
2. Vilket underbart väder. "What wonderful weather."

In this lesson's dialogue, other ways of talking about the weather were also used, like when Kerstin said, det är varmt och soligt ("It's warm and sunny."). In this lesson, you'll learn how to form sentences similar to this by using the formula Det är + [adjective] ("It's [adjective]."). Before we're able to use this formula, we also need to look at some suitable adjectives that can be inserted into it.

Swedish / English

kallt / "cold"

fuktigt / "humid"

soligt / "sunny"

disigt / "hazy"

kyligt / "chilly"

varmt / "warm"

molnigt / "cloudy"

kvavt / "stuffy"

ruggigt / "chilly"

Now let's form some sentences that describe the weather using the formula Det är + [adjective] ("It's [adjective]") with the adjectives presented above.

1. Det är molnigt. "It's cloudy."
2. Det är varmt."It's warm."
3. Det är kallt."It's cold."

Sometimes we also want to use more than one word to describe the weather, and in that case, we can instead use the formula Det är + [adjective] + och + [adjective] ("It's [adjective] and [adjective]."). And we insert two adjectives.

For example:

1. Det är molnigt och kvavt."It's cloudy and stuffy."
2. Det är varmt och fuktigt. "It's warm and humid."
3. Det är kallt och ruggigt."It's cold and raw."