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Hi everyone, I'm Thomas, hallo daar, ik ben Thomas.
Welcome to the Dutch Whiteboard Lessons.
In this lesson you'll learn how to talk about the weather.
Let's get started.
Okay, let's look at the vocabulary.
First we have zonnig, the Dutch word for sunny, zonnig, zonnig, zonnig.
Up next bewolkt or cloudy, bewolkt, bewolkt, bewolkt.
The next one is winderig, windy, winderig, winderig, winderig.
Our next one is mistig, misty, mistig, mistig, mistig.
Up next is sneeuwt, snowy, sneeuwt, sneeuwt, sneeuwt.
And finally regenachtig, rainy, regenachtig, regenachtig, regenachtig.
Let's look at the dialogue.
When I read I want you to pay attention to the weather words.
Find what the weather is and see how it's used in the dialogue.
Hoe is het weer?
Het is zonnig.
How's the weather?
It's sunny.
Hoe is het weer?
Het is zonnig.
Now let's look at some speaking examples.
Het is bewolkt.
It's cloudy.
Het is bewolkt.
Het is bewolkt.
Het is winderig.
It's windy.
Het is winderig.
Het is winderig.
Het is mistig.
It's misty.
Het is mistig.
Het is mistig.
Het sneeuwt.
It's snowy.
Het sneeuwt.
Het sneeuwt.
And finally het is regenachtig.
It's rainy.
Het is regenachtig.
Het is regenachtig.
Now let's look at the sentence pattern.
This pattern will be the structure that all our dialogues will follow.
Het is weather condition.
It's weather condition.
Sometimes we use is, on a few occasions we don't.
I've mentioned that sometimes we do not use is in a sentence structure to describe the
weather.
One example you've already noticed I think, we've included het sneeuwt.
Now het sneeuwt, unlike the other examples, sneeuwt here is a verb and not an adjective.
It comes from the full verb sneeuwen to snow.
The noun for snow in Dutch is sneeuw.
Why do we use a verb here?
That's because an adjective like here does not exist for snow, strangely enough in Dutch.
So we use het sneeuwt, which can mean it is snowy, but can also mean it is snowing.

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