Weather (Kakvo je vrijeme? Pada kiša.)

Asking about the weather

The question is Kakvo je vrijeme? — what is the weather like? Croatian answers it with two impersonal patterns, both without a subject.

Pattern 1: adverb + je

A weather adverb plus je, with no subject at all: | statement | meaning | | --- | --- | | Sunčano je. | It is sunny. | | Oblačno je. | It is cloudy. | | Vjetrovito je. | It is windy. | | Hladno je. | It is cold. |

Pattern 2: pada + noun

Rain and snow FALL in Croatian: Pada kiša. (It is raining.) Pada snijeg. (It is snowing.) The verb padati you already know does the work: Pada kiša, nosim kišobran.

More weather words

magla is fog, nebo the sky, and temperature is counted in degrees — stupanj, plural stupnjeva after numbers: Danas je trideset stupnjeva.