Weather and the outdoors

The sky, and the other sky

der Himmel does double duty: the physical sky and the religious heaven, exactly as English heaven and sky split a single German word.

Der Himmel ist grau. — The sky is grey.

The sky is grey today.
Der Himmel ist heute grau.

Three kinds of weather

die Wolke, die Wolkenthe cloudAm Himmel sind viele *Wolken.*
der Nebelthe fog, the mistDer *Nebel ist stark.*
der Blitz, die Blitzethe lightning, the flashIch habe den *Blitz gesehen.*

der Nebel is a mass noun — German never pluralises it in ordinary use. der Blitz counts individual strikes, so it pluralises freely, and it is also the flash on a camera.

The fog was very heavy in the morning.
Der Nebel war am Vormittag sehr stark.

Taking a walk

German does not use a verb for this. The noun der Spaziergang goes with machen:

Wir machen einen Spaziergang. — We are going for a walk.

There is a verb, spazieren gehen, and you have had it since L51 — but einen Spaziergang machen is the commoner phrasing and the one worth having as a unit.

We are going for a walk on Sunday.
Wir machen am Sonntag einen Spaziergang.

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