Breakdown of Нам повезло с погодой.
мы
we
погода
the weather
повезти
to be lucky (мне повезло — impersonal)
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Questions & Answers about Нам повезло с погодой.
Why is "we" translated as the dative нам here?
Just like the state words you are learning (пора, жаль, лень), the verb повезти (to be lucky) is impersonal. Russian expresses "we were lucky" as "to us it was lucky." Since there is no grammatical subject performing the action, the person experiencing the luck takes the dative case (нам).
Why does the verb end in -о (повезло) if нам is plural?
In impersonal sentences, there is no nominative subject for the verb to agree with. Because of this, past tense impersonal verbs always default to the neuter singular form, which ends in -о, regardless of who or how many people are in the dative case.
Does the preposition с always take the instrumental case here?
Yes, the expression повезти с (to be lucky with) requires the instrumental case. Here, погода becomes погодой. It perfectly mirrors the English "lucky with something," but you must remember to apply the instrumental case to whatever you are lucky with.
How would this sentence look in the present tense?
You would use the present tense form везёт, making the sentence Нам везёт с погодой. The core impersonal structure (Dative + Verb + с + Instrumental) stays exactly the same across all tenses.