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Sun, rain, snow, wind, fog, frost — plus the impersonal phrases Russians actually use («идёт дождь», «холодно», «на улице минус десять»). With stress marks and English translations.
Weather is one of the most useful A1 conversation starters. Russians talk about it constantly.
| Russian | English | Common phrase |
|---|---|---|
| со́лнце | sun | со́лнечно — sunny |
| дождь | rain | идёт дождь — it’s raining |
| снег | snow | идёт снег — it’s snowing |
| ве́тер | wind | ве́трено — windy |
| холод | cold | хо́лодно — (it’s) cold |
| жара́ | heat | жа́рко — (it’s) hot |
| тума́н | fog | тума́нно — foggy |
| облака́ | clouds | о́блачно — cloudy |
| гроза́ | thunderstorm | гроза́ начина́ется — a storm is starting |
| моро́з | frost (deep cold) | моро́зно — it’s freezing |
English says it’s cold. Russian doesn’t use a subject — it says simply хо́лодно. That single-word construction (called impersonal) is one of the first grammar patterns a learner needs, and weather is the perfect topic to drill it.
The pattern is: take the adjective root («холо́дный» — cold), strip the ending, add «-о». Done. Now you can say it’s windy (ве́трено), foggy (тума́нно), hot (жа́рко), warm (тепло́), cool (прохла́дно). Memorize five weather impersonals and you’ve unlocked a whole grammar pattern that extends to dozens of other words.
Russian doesn’t say “rain falls” or “snow falls”. It says “rain goes” (идёт дождь) and “snow goes” (идёт снег). The verb идти́ (to go) does weather. Once you learn this, you understand half of weather Russian.
Open it once to learn the vocabulary. Then every morning, look out the window and describe the weather in Russian out loud. Two weeks of this and the patterns become automatic.
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