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- "It was cloudy yesterday."
"It was cloudy yesterday."
Translation:昨日は曇りでした。
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I thought the same thing so i omitted it, but it was marked as incorrect.
Yes.
EDIT: But Duo didn't accept it when I typed it. I've reported it (Dec. 7).
EDIT 2: Still not fixed on January 6; reported again.
When learning Japanese words, I came across the verb kumoru, which I learned as "to be cloudy". So does that mean that I could translate "It was cloudy yesterday." as "kinou wa kumorimashita."? Or would that mean something different, like "It became cloudy yesterday."?
I think it would be 昨日は曇っていました, but I typed that and was marked wrong. I've reported it (Dec. 7).
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From what I can tell, it can be used to mean either, but I think it's more common in the latter sense.
でした is the past form of です. Most verbs (not all) have their past form ending in -た as well.
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ふる ---------- non-past plain
ふった ------- past plain
ふり ---------- i-stem form
ふります ----- non-past polite
ふりました -- past polite
On doing this from the word bank, it would accept the hiragana くもり, but marked the 雲 kanji incorrect! Unbelievable. Reported.
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Assuming you had the same word bank as me, that's because 曇 is only くも and there wasn't a tile for り, to make it 曇り.
I think that was my mistake - obvs this was 3 months ago now but I recall the tile audio being くもり so perhaps that where I messed it up. Or maybe this is just an excuse..
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I was wondering about 曇り's part of speech, it is a noun and not an adjective like in English. 曇り = cloudy weather. What is the purpose of り here? as 雲 alone means cloud
