Chatting About the Weather in the Elevator

Key vocabulary

• calorm.

  heat; hot weather

  “Hoy hace calor.”— It's hot today.

  Pattern hace calor — it's hot (weather)

  Compare bochorno (m.) — muggy heat

  Noun; no commonly used plural form; used with hacer.

  💡 calor comes from Latin calor, meaning heat; for hot weather, Spanish uses the fixed phrase hace calor.

• fríom./adj.

  cold

  “Hace frío hoy.”— It's cold today.

  Pattern hace frío — it's cold (weather)

  Compare helado (adj.) — icy cold

  As an adjective, it changes: frío/fría/fríos/frías.

  💡 frío can be a noun or an adjective; for cold weather, Spanish uses the fixed phrase hace frío.

• lloverv.

  to rain

  “Mañana llueve.”— Tomorrow it rains.

  Pattern llueve mucho — it rains a lot

  Compare caer agua — to rain (colloquial)

  Irregular verb; the common form is third-person singular llueve.

  💡 llover is an impersonal verb: you only say llueve, not yo lluevo.

• hoyadv.

  today

  “Hoy hace calor.”— It's hot today.

  Pattern hoy día — nowadays

  Compare actualmente (adv.) — currently

  Adverb; no inflected forms.

  💡 The h in hoy is silent; it comes from Latin hodie, meaning today.

• mañanaf./adv.

  tomorrow; morning

  “¿Y mañana?”— And tomorrow?

  Pattern hasta mañana — see you tomorrow

  Compare por la mañana — in the morning

  As a noun, use la mañana; as an adverb, it has no inflected forms.

  💡 mañana can mean both 'morning' and 'tomorrow'; context tells you which.