The seasons

Woordenschat

• 봄spring
• 여름summer
• 가을autumn / fall
• 겨울winter
• 날씨weather
• 덥다to be hot
• 춥다to be cold
• 따뜻하다to be warm
• 시원하다to be cool / refreshing
• 비가 오다to rain
• 눈이 오다to snow
• 바람이 불다to be windy

Uitdrukkingen

• 봄에 꽃이 많이 피어요Describing spring flowers blooming
• 여름에는 너무 더워요Saying summer is too hot
• 가을은 날씨가 좋아요Saying the weather is nice in autumn
• 겨울에 눈이 많이 와요Saying it snows a lot in winter
• 제일 좋아하는 계절이 뭐예요?Asking someone their favourite season
• 봄이 제일 좋아요Saying spring is your favourite

Veelgemaakte fouten

• ✗여름에는 더운이에요
  ✓여름에는 더워요

  덥다 is an irregular adjective verb (ㅂ irregular). Its polite present form is 더워요, not 더운이에요.

• ✗겨울에 눈이 와요를 좋아해요
  ✓겨울에 눈이 와서 좋아요

  To say you like it because snow falls, use -아/어서 (because / so). Two separate sentences joined by 좋아해요 alone is ungrammatical.

• ✗봄이 날씨는 따뜻해요
  ✓봄에는 날씨가 따뜻해요

  봄 is a time expression and needs 에 (in spring), not 이. 날씨 is the subject and needs 가, not 는.

• ✗오늘 날씨가 춥어요
  ✓오늘 날씨가 추워요

  춥다 is also a ㅂ irregular: 춥 + 어요 = 추워요 (the ㅂ becomes 우 before a vowel suffix).

• ✗가을 좋아해요
  ✓가을을 좋아해요 / 가을이 좋아요

  좋아하다 (to like) takes an object with 을/를. Alternatively, 좋다 (to be liked) uses 이/가. Dropping the particle is too informal.

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