"It was a really bad cold snap."

Translation: 정말 나쁜 한파였어요.

[RQZ.Sash]

What does 였어요 mean? Why not 있어요?

[Pamela909830]

Remember beginning grammar present tense? If the word ends with a consonant, use 이에요. If the word ends with a vowel, use 예요. So 였어요 is past tense for 예요.

[RQZ.Sash]

I think this is the first time to see the past tense form of 예요, but I might be wrong. Anyway, thank you so much!

[danyellefeth]

What is a cold snap?

[nleconte]

"A sudden, brief spell of cold weather"

[avanade]

정말 나쁜 한파였어요 sounds very unnatural though sentence itself is flawless in terms of grammar

정말 심한 한파였어요 sounds more natural - FYI

https://glosbe.com/ko/en/심한

[neuspmi85]

Why so many unnatural sentences :(

[Pamela909830]

I looked up 심하다. It means "extreme, excessive, great, gross, hard, terrible, acute.

[hwanghaedo]

What a farce. It said I was wrong but then it said the answer I chose was the correct answer.

[hwanghaedo]

No one addresses why "정말" and not "진짜" as both mean really.