Breakdown of In april en mei is het weer mooi.
zijn
to be
en
and
in
in
het weer
the weather
mooi
beautiful
april
April
mei
May (month)
Questions & Answers about In april en mei is het weer mooi.
Why aren't april and mei capitalized?
In Dutch, days of the week, months, and seasons are written with lowercase letters, unlike in English. So we write april and mei.
Why does the sentence say is het weer instead of het weer is?
Dutch uses a strict 'verb-second' rule. The verb (is) must be the second piece of information in the sentence. Because we started with the time phrase In april en mei (which counts as the first piece), the verb is has to come next, pushing the subject het weer to the third position.
Is in always the correct word to use before a month?
Yes! Just like in English, we use the preposition in before months of the year: in april, in mei, in januari, and so on.
Does het mean 'it' or 'the' in this sentence?
Here, het means 'the' because weer (weather) is a neuter noun. While het can also mean 'it' in other contexts, het weer simply means 'the weather'.
I learned that mooi means 'beautiful'. Can it also mean 'nice'?
Yes! While mooi translates to 'beautiful' or 'pretty', the Dutch commonly use mooi weer to simply mean 'nice weather' or 'good weather'.
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