Weather words and weather-related expressions in Finnish with English equivalents.
Finnish | English |
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sää, ilma | Weather |
Sääennuste | Weather forecast |
Millainen on sääennuste? | What is the weather forecast? |
Millainen ilma tänään on? Millainen sää tänään on? |
What's the weather like today? |
Tänään on hyvä ilma Tänään on hyvä sää |
The weather is good today |
Tänään on huono ilma Tänään on huono sää |
The weather is bad today |
Aurinko | Sun |
On aurinkoista | It's sunny |
Aurinko paistaa | The sun in shining |
Ilma on kaunis On kaunis ilma |
The weather is beautiful |
On kaunis päivä | It's a beautiful day |
On lämmin | It's warm |
On kuuma | It's hot |
Pilvi | cloud |
On pilvistä | It's cloudy |
tihkusade | drizzle |
Sataa tihkua | It's drizzling |
Sade | rain |
Tulva | flood |
Sadekuuro | rain shower |
Sataa Sataa vettä |
It's raining |
On viileä | It's chilly / cool |
On melko kylmä | It's fairly cold |
On kylmä | It's cold |
On jäätävän kylmä | It's freezing cold |
On jääkylmää | It's icy cold |
Halla | frost |
On hallaa On pakkasta |
It's frosty |
Räntä | sleet |
Sataa räntää | It's sleeting |
Rakeita | hail |
Sataa rakeita | It's hailing |
Lumi | snow |
Sataa lunta | It's snowing |
Tuulta | breeze |
Tuuli | wind |
Tuulee | It's windy |
Tuulee oikein kovasti | It's very windy |
On myrsky | There's a (wind)storm |
Salama | lightning |
Ukkonen | thunder |
On ukonilma | There's a thunderstorm |
Salamoi | There's lightning |
Sumu | mist, foggy |
On sumuista | It's misty / foggy |
On kosteaa | It's humid |
Sateenkaari | rainbow |
Aste | temperature |
Finnish | English |
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Sataa kuin saavista kaataen | It's pouring like from a big bucket |
Sataa kuin Esterin perseestä | It's raining as from Esteri's ass / It's raining like Esther sucks |
Other idioms for heavy rain in various languages
Hear some Finnish words and phrases for weather:
More weather words in Finnish
https://uusikielemme.fi/finnish-vocabulary/vocabulary-lists/talking-about-the-weather-ilma-saa-keli
https://www.finnishpod101.com/blog/2020/03/30/weather-in-finnish/
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