{"id":400,"date":"2015-09-28T20:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T20:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/spanish1oli\/?post_type=chapter&p=400"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:59:24","slug":"estructuras-gramaticales-expresiones-para-hablar-del-clima-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/umes-spanish\/chapter\/estructuras-gramaticales-expresiones-para-hablar-del-clima-1\/","title":{"raw":"Expresiones para hablar del clima","rendered":"Expresiones para hablar del clima"},"content":{"raw":" \r\n\r\nThere are four common structures that enable you to talk about weather conditions. First, you can use verbs that express an action: llover<\/span>, nevar<\/span>, tronar<\/span>, relampaguear<\/span>, and granizar<\/span>.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"Play Llueve.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"120\"]\"a Foto: Art Explosion[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Nieva.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Relampaguea.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Truena.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Graniza.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\nYou cannot use these verbs with any subject. The subject is understood as \"it.\" However, in Spanish, unlike English, the \"it\" is not directly expressed. For this reason, these verbs have only one form\u2014<\/span>third person singular.\r\n\r\nThe second structure you can use is with the verb hacer<\/span>. Hacer<\/span> is used with nouns that denote the weather conditions.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\"Play Hace fr\u00edo.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"120\"]\"man Foto: Art Explosion[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Hace calor.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Hace viento.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Hace sol.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n\n\n\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"120\"]\"people Foto: Art Explosion[\/caption]\r\n\r\n
<\/div><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Hace fresco.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Hace buen tiempo.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
\"Play Hace mal tiempo.<\/a><\/span><\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\nYou can see that all the words following hace<\/span> are nouns\u2014<\/span>wind, sun, cold, heat. Just as in the earlier expressions you learned, there is no subject directly expressed. \"It\" is understood, and the verb will always be used in the third person singular hace<\/span> form. Generally, these expressions are used with conditions that you can directly physically experience. In other words, if it\u2019s hot outside, you too will feel hot.\r\n\r\nThe third structure is with the verb haber<\/span>, in the form you have already learned\u2014<\/span>hay<\/span>. You also use hay<\/span> followed by nouns, like in the case of hacer<\/span>.\r\n