WEATHER overview- list

TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER IN JAPANESE!
NOUNS
“na” ADJECTIVES
“I” ADJECTIVES
(Noun + desu/deshita).
or
(After the adj, add NA before the
noun -and then desu or deshita.)
(Adj+desu. *For past tense,
donʼt use deshita! For past, drop
I and add katta + desu).
天気 tenki – weather
嫌な iya – bad, poor
暑い atsui – hot
雨 ame – rain
曇りkumori
寒い samui – cold
晴れ -sun (Kyou, hare desu.
蒸し暑い mushiatsui –
* Oftentimes, this is stated as:
Tenki ga yoi /ii desu.)
humid, muggy
雲 kumo – cloud
涼しい suzushii – cool
雪 yuki – snow
暖かい atatakai – warm
虹 niji – rainbow
いい (よい) ii/ yoi – good,
霧 giri – fog
nice
空 sora – sky
風が強い- kaze ga tsuyoi -
氷 koori – ice
windy “The wind is strong”.
(Obviously, the word “strong
is the only adj here).
嵐 arashi – storm
風 kaze – wind
雷 kaminari – lightning/
thunder
傘 kasa – umbrella
台風 - taifuu - typhoon
津波 tsunami
SOMETIMES THIS/ SOMETIMES THAT?
adj or noun + 「時々（ときどき）tokidoki」 + 2nd adj or noun + desu.
ADD AN ADVERB BEFORE THE ADJECTIVE!
とても - very
ちょっと - a little
あまり - not very (used only with NEGATIVE form of verb)
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER IN JAPANESE!
SEASONS
季節 kisetsu – season
TIME WORDS
MONTHS
DAYS OF WEEK
春 haru – Spring
今日 kyo – today
夏 natsu – Summer
昨日 - kinou
梅雨 tsuyu – rainy
一昨日 - ototoi - day
四月 -shigatsu
月曜日
season
before yesterday
五月 -gogatsu
げつようび
秋 aki – Fall
明日 ashita –
冬 fuyu – Winter
tomorrow
明後日 - asatte
来週 raishu – next
week
先週 senshuu - last
一月 -ichigatsu
日曜日
二月 -nigatsu
にちようび
三月 -sangatsu
六月 -rokugatsu
七月 -shichigatsu
八月 -hachigatsu
火曜日
かようび
九月 -kyuugatsu
水曜日
十月 -juugatsu
すいようび
十一月-juuichigatsu
十二月-juunigatsu
木曜日
もくようび
week
最近 saikin –
recently, these days
来尿日
きんょうび
土曜日
どようび
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER IN JAPANESE!
So here’s the formula: time-word , _adjective_ (sometimes na)_noun_ desu (ne/yo/ka).
The “desu” basically means “is,” a grammatical equal sign.
You can add “ne” (ね) at the end to prompt a response from the listener. It would somewhat
equate to saying “y’know” or “don’t you think.”
If you want to add a little more umph to your statement, you can add “yo” (よ).
OR, you could add “ka” (か) to make the statement a question.
EXAMPLES (* Sometimes there’s no time-adjective, or no noun, or no adjective!!)
Ashita, arashi desu ka – Is there going to be a storm tomorrow?
iya na fuyu desu yo – It’s been an awful winter!!
saikin, samui desu ne – It’s been cold lately, don’t you think?
ii niji desu – It’s a nice rainbow
kyo, hare no sora desu ne – The sky is so nice today
mushiatsui natsu desu yo – It’s such a muggy humid summer!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Talking about the weather is an amazing way of breaking the ice and moving on to where
someone’s from or what they do or what their hobbies are. Here’s an example:
“最近、いい天気ですね”
“そうですね,” she says.
“明日、雨ですよ” You comment. You heard the weather report that morning.
“明日？分かりませんでした。ざんねんですね。ああ、お母さんはげんきですか”
Talking about the weather is a great way to make chit chat and start a casual conversation. Here
is another list of nouns and adjectives that you can use to create some basic statements.

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