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Agreed. Dictionaries also give "cloudiness" -- but in either case, it's a noun. "Cloudy" is an adjective.
I don't think “noun” and “adjective” can so easily be applied to Japanese. Sure, “曇り“ is a noun meaning “cloudy weather”, but what do you say when you mean “it's cloudy”? “曇りです“. And what about “cloudy day”? “曇りの日“. But the dictionary form of that “曇りの“ (which is basically an adjective) is still only “曇り”. So, yeah, I think “cloudy” is an appropriate translation for the word in isolation, as is “cloudy weather”.
If it were an adjective, it wouldn't require the particle の in order to be used to describe a noun.
That is npt called a particle a particle is a part hence the name of the word particle now as i was saying, parts are the bits of an object specifically its parts like limbs now if the parts we are talking is scientifically much more interesting well its a part of an atom (even the whole thing is a particle) the atom is the smallest of em all parts po an atom include:electron, nucleus, and the and photons therefore, linguistically speaking of what ur saying the particle you say:that is called a character.
Not really. Cumulus is an English noun used to describe those puffy white clouds with flat bottoms. It just has a Latin root.
Hi I am from India but I love to learn Japanese and I am loving it on duoling
The Kumo Village in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. Literally, The village [hidden in] the clouds.
Naruto has taught me so many words. Thanks for this, Agnjosrel, I learned ANOTHER!
love it, as loads of comments saying to remember something you bringing Naruto! nice!
rain rain go away くもり another day (sounds like come again so by remembering this nursery rhyme switching come again with くもり you can remember the rain coming and its cloudy if it rains so you can kinda connect cloudy with rain)
It sounds similar to the polish word "chmury" which means clouds. That's how I remember it.
Would "hito wa kumori desu?" be how you say "It's cloudy today"? Or is there something missing?
That would be saying "The person is cloudy." To say "It's cloudy today” You have to say きょうはくもりです。（kyou wa kumori desu.）kyou is the noun for 'today'.
This is because は in this sentence is a "topic marker." This maybe a new concept if you only know European languages, a topic marker indicates what the topic is in this sentence. "きょうはくもりです。" the topic is "today" (implying "I am talking about TODAY.") so you use は to indicates this. This is a really hard topic so don't worry if you find it difficult. In Japanese, due to historical reasons, は is ONLY pronounced as "wa" in this case.
Thank you for explinning that to us andrew-lin now im not confused anymore thank you so much
You get 2 lingots thanks to sharing a new sentence, I log everything I can down in a book, so this helps!
A: 天気はどうですか？ (Tenki wa dou desu ka How's the weather?)
B:曇りです。(Kumori desu).
To me, "it's cloudy" would make the most sense for B, and "it's cloudiness" would sound strange.
I'm really very confused about the character for "ri". Isn't it the one with two lines?
り ri
Some fonts connect the two lines, while others make them separate. Both are correct.
Sounds like "cool morning" to me, so it'll be a cool (temperature) morning if it's cloudy
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Since I've a slight hearing loss, I'm not sure if the last syllable is actually being pronounced "ri", which is what I'd expect from the hiragana used. To me the sound file is sounding more like "di". Am I mis-hearing?
I think you're hearing it correctly. The Japanese "r" sound isn't the same as an English "r" sound. It's made by touching your tongue to the roof of your mouth, similar to how we make a "d" sound but slightly more back. This results in many people hearing the Japanese "r" sound as a "d".
The Animal Crossing series is called Animal Forest, or Dōbutsu no Mori (どうぶつの森) in Japan. The fact "mori" (もり, 森) means forest and "kumori" くもり means cloudy really helped me associate them as clouds and tress could somehow look alike as if in a drawing. The kanji for forest helps as well; it's one of the few I can remember already.
Yeah. Japanese doesn't have a lot of sounds, so sometimes words sound the same, but their Kanji will be different. Cloud is 雲, and that is how you always see it written once you learn it.
In spoken language you'll pick up which is which through context, or in some cases the pitch accent is different.
あめ... rain (雨), candy (飴)
はし... chopsticks (箸), bridge (橋)
かみ... hair (髪), paper (紙), god (神)
The list goes on and on!
It would actually be kyou wa kumori desu ka, hiru apparently means person more than it does day
I think you're thinking of hito: https://jisho.org/search/hito
Hiru means "daytime" : https://jisho.org/search/hiru
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Honestly this one is easy for me because it sounds a lot like "cloudy" anyway, just in a Japanese accent. Kinda like "Ku-Loud-Ee".
Anybody else notice that kumo means "spiders" and ri means "similar to"? Clouds are like spiders!
I think if you submitted an error report saying "my answer should be accepted", "overcast" might be added. 曇り is a basic weather word, and in my dialect of English "cloudy" is the common word I see in a weather forecast, while "overcast" sounds... fancier somehow, but in terms of meaning they're similar enough.
Female sounds like ku mo di, male ku mo ri. Uh which is the better one to learn from?
"The sky is very spiders today." Panting "Dude, I think you read that wrong. It's just a weather report. It's just cloudy." Locks door "NO."
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Although I realise you expect くもりto be translated as "cloudy", why do you mark "spiders" as wrong when that is given as an alternative meaning?
くも could be spiders, but くもり is cloudy.
It's actually shocking that they introduce cloudy early on but not cloud, even though it's very similar. When they get to introducing clouds later in the course, then try to trick it with spiders and see if it works. ;)
wow me encanta pero un favor poner los nombres de las cosas en Español es que me confunde
One way I remember is "kumori" kinda sounds like a slurred good morning, and I love cloudy mornings, so it works. Another way is thinking of cumulus clouds, as the start of both words are similar.
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I saw the KUMORI japanese bakery & cafe. I always thought that the bread is so soft that it's cloudy.
Watching youtube at the same time and wrote chocolate because the people said chocolate lol
THE DUOLINGO BIRD IS POINTING A GUN AT ME AND WILL SHOOT IF I DONT DO MY LESSONS :D
