"Com'è il tempo oggi?"
Translation:How is the weather today?
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It's not the only language. Scottish Gaelic can do that too. I have NO idea why. In SG the same word can be used for time, season and weather. Which I suppose do have some links.
Al tempo giusto la veritá surge A MOMENT Il tempo buono é al state a spiaggia SEASON A che tempo arriva il prossimo treno ? SCHEDULE AT Avrá della soprabundanza di cibo nel tempo di pace PERIOD OF TIME Nel tempo airoso con le nubule nere aprossima la piove forte WEATHER Non si sa il tempo né l'ore; INCERTEZZA Mi bevo la medicina di tempo a tempo entro la colazione e il pranzo di tardi. LAPSES OF TIME Tanti essempi mamma mia !
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XavierGars - seems like EVERY word in Italian can be used 5 different ways. This is my 1st sentence for today and already my head hurts. Thanks for the info.
In Latin the words are similar but their slight distinction is lost in Italian. Time is tempus, temporis, n. and weather is tempus, tempi, m.
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It's kind of like that in English - we have tempo, temporary, and temporal (all of which relate to time), while of course temperature relates to heat/weather.
Same as Spanish. El tiempo esta frio (It is a cold weather), Es tiempo de irse (It is time to go).
Possibly due to the change in weather indicating change in time or a duration.
Yes, as in this very popular italian saturday night talk show.
http://www.chetempochefa.rai.it/dl/portali/site/page/Page-72d4d3e5-a5e7-4f5d-b4ce-da70ead94dac.html
On which an incredible percentage of the guests not only have a book to promote but also thrust it at the screen in a way not seen on brit tv since 1950/60s soap powder ads.
"What is the weather like today?" should also be accepted as a valid translation of this question.
In Greek, the word καιρός (weather) is used in the opposite way... we can say "είναι πολύς καιρός" (it is a long weather) when we want to say "it is a long time". Also we can say "έχεις καιρό;" (do you have weather?) meaning "do you have time?".
BUT we never use the word χρόνος (time) to mean the weather :)
Surely 'How's the weather today?' should be accepted, with the contraction...
Wherever you'd say "come è" it's always shortened to "com'è". Same thing with "dove".
That's 'What's the weather like today'. Or slightly more literally What weather doing today? Com'è il tempo oggi? is How is the weather today. All of these are good questions about the weather and in gist are fairly interchangable, but if you're trying to learn a language then knowing how they best map is a good thing.
Čas (time in czech) is not the same, but Nečas (non-time) is used for bad weather.
Seems to me many of these phrases are idioms you simply have to learn rather than try to literally translate them. All langes have phrases that are simply undstood by fluent speakers. You get bogged down if you try to analyse the logic of literal translation.
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Com (how) 'è (is) il (the) tempo (weather) oggi (today) ? (?)
the very definition of an idiom?
Everything is about context. "Com'è il tempo" and "Cos'è il tempo" wouldn't make sense as "how is the time" or "what is the weather". You can ask "how much time" or "what is the weather like", but they would translate to "quando tempo" and "com'è il tempo".
Surely 'How's the weather today?' should be accepted, with the contraction...
I wrote "come è" and "com'è"and both were marked incorrect. Do you know why? Thanks!
I know how you would use "fare" to describe the weather (for example you'd say "Oggi fa caldo" rather than "Oggi è caldo," but here you use essere? Would it also be acceptable to say "Come fa il tempo oggi?" or would this not make sense/have another meaning?
When i first gave an incorrect answer the app told me the answer was 'What's the time today' (which i thought was odd) and when i filled out that answer later on, it said it was wrong too and that it was 'what's the weather today'. App error
Unless you're at the racetrack, or even then, no fluent speak of English would say: "How is the time today?" It sounds like something out of Casablanca.
Tempo also means weather. ᴵᵗ ᵈᵒᵉˢⁿ'ᵗ ᵐᵉᵃⁿ ᵃⁿʸᵗʰⁱⁿᵍ ⁱᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ᵗʳᵃⁿˢˡᵃᵗᵉ ⁱᵗ ʷʳᵒⁿᵍ
well, does "Com' " translate to HOW or WHAT ? Duolingo have both as correct across two questions ( a type-in and a speech test ) but "how" & "what" give two completely different definitions in english
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In this section of Adverbs a couple of sentences back I translated 'How is the weather today?' as 'Come fa il tempo oggi?'. This was marked incorrect and I was given 'Come va il tempo oggi?' Now here we have 'Come'e il tempo oggi?' Please can a native Italian let me know the best answer for this. Many thanks in advance.
So 'Che ora sono?' for 'What time is it?' and 'Com'è il tempo' for 'How is the weather?'.
Would you not use 'ora' for time and 'tempo' for weather for clarity?
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In English you would not say,'How is the weather ?'it would be more natural to say, 'What is the weather like ?'This was marked wrong.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤! "how is today's weather?" is much more commonly said, I would at least expect that to be accepted!!
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"...il tempo di oggi." it's unlikely that you can know what is 'more commonly said' by 2 billion people.
"What is the time today" isn't accepted even though it's in the suggestions of "tempo"???
In Indonesia the word "cuaca" is exclusively for weather; unlike the Italian "tempo" which has so many meanings.
