"Jaka jest pogoda?"

Translation: How is the weather?

[va-diim]

How's the weather? This would be a better translation.

[Jellei]

Works as well.

[WarsawWill]

More literal but not better. In BrE, at least, we are more likely to say "What's the weather like?", I think.

[bookrabbit]

how would you say what is weather?

[Jellei]

I don't think that sentence makes sense, unless you're asking what the word "weather" means...

[bookrabbit]

yes, that is what it means. i think the sentence what is love appears in the course in this sense already so I expected what is weather to be accepted as an answer to this question as it is so similiar, but wonder if there is a reason it would not be asked like this.

ah, just had another question using czym for what is _abstract_noun. would what is weather be cyzm jest pagoda?

[immery]

co to jest pogoda? or "czym jest pogoda"

"co to jest..."- is a question for easy definition (like in school)

"czym jest ...." is a more philosophical question about a nature of "weather"

[bookrabbit]

from what I just read czym is more for classifying which category something belongs to so I think co to jest is the one for the sense I was after.

[kileli]

What's the difference between "co to jest" and "co to na"? (in a past lesson there was "co to na kształt?")

EDIT: Whoops, yes, "co to za kstałt". Dziękuję!

[Jellei]

That was probably "Co to za kształt?"

Co to jest = What is it?, so "What is X" - asking for definitions.

Like: Co to jest "kwadrat"? = What is "a square"?

"Co to za kształt?" = "What kind of shape is that?"

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Although, "what is the weather like" would be OK (in English). (Maybe already accepted)

[Hugo647250]

So how come it marks "What's the weather like" as incorrect? And gives "What is the weather like" as the acceptable answer.

[Jellei]

From what I see in the Incubator, "What's the weather like" should have been accepted already... must have been a bug :/

[va-diim]

report it.

"what is" and "what's" are supposed to be accepted interchangeably

[JKWolf17]

How is the weather like wasnt accepted

[alik1989]

I don't believe that this is correct English. The entire Corpus of Contemporary American English has only two examples for:

how BE the NOUN like ?

but it displays 276 examples if you replace 'how' with 'what'.

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https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/

[JerryMcCarthy99]

Alternatively, "How is the weather?" is also good English, and is accepted.

It is the combination of "how" and "like" which breaks your version.