{"id":78,"date":"2009-01-20T07:50:20","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T11:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-01-20T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T11:50:20","slug":"rainy-day-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/rainy-day-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stamattina mi sono svegliata col rumore della pioggia che batteva sul lucernaio.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This morning I woke up to the sound of rain beating on the skylight. Hmm, inspiration for a rainy vocabulary blog!<\/span><\/p>\n

As is true of just about anywhere, us Italians like talking about the weather. It\u2019s nearly always too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry, and if the weather is beautiful? \u201cSi\u2019, e\u2019 una bella giornata ma mi hanno\u00a0detto che domani piovera\u2019!\u201d<\/strong> (Yes it\u2019s a beautiful day but they say it\u2019s going to rain tomorrow!)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pioggia<\/strong> means rain and the verb \u2018to rain\u2019 is piovere<\/strong>, which is obviously only used in the third person singular: piove<\/strong> = \u2018it\u2019s raining\u2019 or \u2018is it raining?\u2019. Piovera\u2019<\/strong> is the simple future and it means, depending on the intonation of voice, either \u2018it will rain\u2019 or \u2018will it rain?\u2019 To say \u2018it rained yesterday\u2019 you can say either ieri<\/strong> e\u2019 piovuto<\/strong>, or ieri<\/strong> ha piovuto<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pioggerella<\/strong> is the type of rain I became so familiar with in England: drizzle, and the verb \u2018to drizzle\u2019 is piovigginare<\/strong>. Ieri e\u2019 piovigginato tutto il giorno ma oggi piove a catinelle<\/strong> (yesterday it drizzled all day but today it\u2019s bucketing down). Instead of saying piove a catinelle<\/strong> (it\u2019s bucketing down) you could say piove da morire<\/strong> (literally, it\u2019s raining to death).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the summer, especially the long hot days of august, we often have an acquazzone<\/strong> (a heavy shower) in the afternoon. This is\u00a0frequently heralded by i tuoni<\/strong> (thunder) in the distance which means that the acquazzone<\/strong> will become un temporale<\/strong> (a thunderstorm)\u00a0bringing with it\u00a0the danger of fulmini<\/strong> (lightning strikes) or grandine<\/strong> (hail) which can ruin crops and do a lot of damage to property.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If it is un giorno piovoso<\/strong> (a rainy day) and you have to go out there are a few things that might come in handy such as\u00a0un<\/strong> ombrello<\/strong> (an umbrella, literally \u2018a little shadow!) less commonly known as un parapioggia<\/strong> (literally a rain stopper). Of course umbrellas aren’t very practical if your going for a hike, in which case it\u2019s better to\u00a0 wear una giacca impermeabile<\/strong> or simply\u00a0un impermeabile<\/strong> (a waterproof jacket). If on the other hand you enjoy splashing in pozzanghere<\/strong>\u00a0(puddles) it\u2019s best to wear gli stivali di gomma<\/strong> (rubber boots). Finally\u00a0Se vai in macchina e comincia a piovere devi accendere\u00a0i tergicristalli <\/strong>(if you\u00a0are travelling in the car and it starts to rain you have to turn on the windscreen wipers).<\/span><\/p>\n

I do hope of course that when you come to visit Italy non piovera\u2019<\/strong> (it won\u2019t rain), but at least if it does you\u2019ll now be able to discuss it with the locals in Italian!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stamattina mi sono svegliata col rumore della pioggia che batteva sul lucernaio. This morning I woke up to the sound of rain beating on the skylight. Hmm, inspiration for a rainy vocabulary blog! As is true of just about anywhere, us Italians like talking about the weather. It\u2019s nearly always too hot, too cold, too…<\/p>\n

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