📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 19 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 4 · The date and the weather
¿Qué tiempo hace? — the weather
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 19 of 30: Spanish weather is something the day MAKES: hace calor (it is hot, literally "it makes heat"). On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
¿qué tiempo hace?
what is the weather like?
keh TYEHM-poh AH-seh
hace calor
it is hot
AH-seh kah-LOHR
hace frío
it is cold
AH-seh FREE-oh
hace sol
it is sunny
AH-seh SOHL
hace viento
it is windy
AH-seh BYEHN-toh
hace buen tiempo
the weather is nice
AH-seh bwehn TYEHM-poh
el tiempo
the weather
ehl TYEHM-poh
el cielo
the sky
ehl SYEH-loh
soleado
sunny
soh-leh-AH-doh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Spanish weather is something the day MAKES: hace calor (it is hot — literally "it makes heat"), hace frío (cold), hace sol (sunny), hace viento (windy), hace buen tiempo (nice weather).
Y también · And also
¿Qué tiempo hace? is the small talk that opens half the conversations in the Spanish-speaking world. Answer for today, truthfully, every morning. Está soleado works for sunny too.
Ojo · Watch out
The weather uses hacer, not ser or estar: hace frío, never es frío, which would describe a cold person rather than a cold day.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with ¿qué tiempo hace?.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 19 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.