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- 0:08SPEAKER_00: Diochrit Ahara Consatu Tasulam Goilto Gama I hope that you're doing well today and today I'm gonna be talking about weather and how you may describe weather which is probably one of the most favourite pastimes of most adults at least it is in Minnesota where I am from.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: The word for weather in Irish is Amshir it means weather, but it can also mean time or a period of service.
- 0:53SPEAKER_00: Good weather is Amshir wa or va Tabun Eron Amsir The weather is settled.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: We have wind which is gui.
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: It is feminine.
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: Sorry if I didn't mention Amsir is feminine, but Guy wind is feminine.
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: So the wind is on Gui La Guy is a windy day.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: Guy Horoch is a favorable wind.
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: There are many words describing kinds of wind in Chonglin, which makes sense because in Ireland, at least on the coasts, it is quite windy usually.
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: The temperature is Tiocht, it is feminine.
- 1:45SPEAKER_00: On Tiocht.
- 1:47SPEAKER_00: Fucht, which is masculine, is cold the cold, on Fucht the cold.
- 1:54SPEAKER_00: Fucht on Gevri is the winter cold.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: We have Grien the sun, which is feminine on Rien the Sun.
- 2:06SPEAKER_00: A phrase that you may hear in Irish in Ireland is the sun is splitting the rocks which is ta unrien agsquilchengloch.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: The sun is splitting the rocks, and that just means it is very bright and sunny.
- 2:22SPEAKER_00: And that doesn't happen usually too often in Ireland.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: A sunny day would be a law green.
- 2:30SPEAKER_00: If you want to describe the weather, you can use the simple B, which is Paul, and then she sort of a generic it is, like we would say it is raining.
- 2:42SPEAKER_00: Who's it?
- 2:43SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
- 2:44SPEAKER_00: I'm sure it's feminine, so you would think you'd say she.
- 2:47SPEAKER_00: But paul shay, whatever it is, and you which is today also said in you.
- 2:55SPEAKER_00: If you wanted to talk about what it was doing yesterday you could say vi, which is it was, and then in ye is yesterday.
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: Paul She Agkar Balsthi it's raining.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: Literally it is pudding rain.
- 3:14SPEAKER_00: You could also say Agkarfarny for raining.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: If it's snowing, you could say Agershnachte Toshe Agersnachte it is snowing.
- 3:29SPEAKER_00: Tashe Guifer it's windy or Toshe Floch it's wet.
- 3:38SPEAKER_00: Tashe Tash it's damp or humid.
- 3:42SPEAKER_00: Where I am right now in the southern part of the United States in summer it is humid usually Tash it's hot or Toshefur it's cold.
- 3:58SPEAKER_00: Tashe Greenwar, it's sunny Tashe Dorca it's dark Tashe Scamalach it is cloudy How is the weather where you are right now?
- 4:14SPEAKER_00: A new Ta Me E Draw Virginia Today I'm in Virginia Beach V She Agar Bosh the It was raining Ak Anish Tosha Grienwar But now it's sunny Right now here it's the summer The word for summer is masculine all of the seasons are masculine and it is Saura Saura summer The word for spring is Arach Winter is Gevra and fall is fall What is the weather like in the seasons where you are Ansha E draw Virginia here in Virginia Beach Tashe Sahara Agasta Floch Agasta Tashiniroch Tashe Firfa and Firfa is perfect Tashe Greenwar Sevra Tashefur Agastafor Guifer Agushenra Have fun and see you next time Song