Learn Hardcore Japanese: natu ha yuudati ga ooi kara, sentakumono wo soto ni dasippanasi ni suru to nuretyau. - There are lots of sudden evening showers in summer, so if you leave laundry outside, it’ll get wet.

Word

夏なつ　は　夕立ゆうだち　が　多おおい　から、　洗濯物せんたくもの　を　外そと　に　出だしっぱなし　に　する　と　ぬれちゃう。natsu wa yuudachi ga ooi kara, sentakumono o soto ni dashippanashi ni suru to nurechau.

Meaning

There are lots of sudden evening showers in summer, so if you leave laundry outside, it’ll get wet.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Japanese

Lesson

Lesson 62

Breakdown of natsu wa yuudachi ga ooi kara, sentakumono o soto ni dashippanashi ni suru to nurechau.

はwa

topic particle

をo

direct object particle

Questions & Answers about natsu wa yuudachi ga ooi kara, sentakumono o soto ni dashippanashi ni suru to nurechau.

Why is 夏 followed by は?

は marks 夏 as the topic: As for summer, ... or In summer, ....

The sentence is making a general statement about summer, not identifying summer as the subject in contrast with something else. So 夏は sounds natural here.

If you used 夏が, it would usually sound like you were emphasizing summer itself, as if answering a question like Which season has a lot of evening showers?

What does 夕立 mean, and why is it marked with が in 夕立が多い?

夕立 means a sudden evening shower, often a short, heavy rain in the summer.

In 夕立が多い, the thing that is many/frequent is 夕立, so it takes が.
Japanese often uses X が多い for there are many X / X happens a lot.

So:

夕立が多い = there are many evening showers / evening showers are frequent

This is a very common pattern:

雨が多い = there is a lot of rain
人が多い = there are many people
仕事が多い = there is a lot of work

Why is it 多い and not something like たくさんある?