Saying 'it's stormy'

[JDubG]

Is this how you say 'it's stormy'?

Yuki arashi?

Yuki=It's?
Arashi=Stormy?

 

[kisu]

I thought Yuki means snow

 

[Elizabeth]

Yeah, 'yuki arashi' is literally snow storm -- although they don't use the word storm or stormy nearly as much as in English.

 

[mdchachi]

aremoyou would work but I can't say that I've ever heard anybody actually say it.

 

[Glenn]

I'm curious as to how you got yuki to mean "it's."

 

[JDubG]

Well, I got 'it's' from a Japanese Website. So I separated it from a sentence and was just curious if I was correct.

 

[PaulTB]

Well, I got 'it's' from a Japanese Website. So I seperated it from a sentance and was just curious if I was correct.

Hah. Betcha there was no 'it's' in the Japanese version.

That's a typical mistake -
Just because "sentence in Japanese" is translated as "sentence in English" doesn't mean that "words in Japanese sentence" = "words in English sentence".

 

[Elizabeth]

aremoyou would work but I can't say that I've ever heard anybody actually say it.

Yeah, anything with "are" -- 荒天 (stormy weather) would be another possibility, which I probably have come across at some point and simply forgotten.....

 

[Dan B]

How about this one? I read this in my Japanese textbook and it seems more general:

ひどい おてんき です ね。 ("It's bad weather, isn't it?")

or, in the case of snow,

ひどい ゆき です ね。 ("It's snowing hard, isn't it?")

I was talking to my dad about "hidoi" and he said that "taihen" (I think that was the word) would also work if the weather was really nasty.

Regards,

Dan

 

[JDubG]

Arigatou Dan. I appreciate it!

 

[cricket]

aremoyou I think is mostly used on weather forecasts reports on TV.

I would usually say, Kyo wa arashi no hi da na
for it's a stormy day.

 

[Golgo_13]

"Ittsu Sutoumii"

 

[Dan B]

LOL!

That's hilarious.

Dan

 

[Golgo_13]

When I met MadPierrot in Osaka in April and hung out in a coffee shop, I noticed on the menu that they had "smoothies", so I told him.

Then I corrected myself and said "sumuujii" like a Japanese and we had a barrel of laughs.

 

[Dan B]

LOL!

From what I've seen of you and Mad Pierrot online, I imagine that the jokes never stopped the whole time you were together!

 

[Golgo_13]

LOL!

From what I've seen of you and Mad Pierrot online, I imagine that the jokes never stopped the whole time you were together!

We most certainly did, but we got serious during my exhibition of Chi Kung.