Today's WOTD is: "lluvia" = rain
In
Spanish, “lluvia”
is a feminine noun of Latin origin which means rain.
The
Spanish describing word/ adjective “lluvioso”/
“lluviosa”
may be used to describe weather, a day, a season, a country, etc. as
being rainy/
wet.
Some
commonly used expressions containing the word "lluvia"/
“lluvioso”/
“lluviosa”
are:
- Día de lluvia (a rainy/ wet day);
- Día lluvioso (a rainy/ wet day);
- Lluvia ácida (acid rain);
- Lluvia de estrellas (star/ meteor shower);
- Lluvia fina (drizzle);
- Lluvia menuda (drizzle);
- Lluvia radiactiva (nuclear fallout);
- Lluvia radioactiva (nuclear fallout);
Some
examples of the use of the word "lluvia"
are:
- Hoy tenemos un día de mucha lluvia (today we have a very rainy day);
- Ayer fue un día muy lluvioso (yesterday was a very rainy day);
- La contaminación atmosférica puede ser la causa de la lluvia ácida (air pollution may be the cause of acid rain);
- Por la noche en agosto se observan espectaculares lluvias de estrellas (at night in August you can often see spectacular meteor showers);
- Caía una lluvia fina (it was drizzling);
- Caía una lluvia menuda (it was drizzling);
- La lluvia radiactiva del desastre Chernobil (Chernobyl's nuclear disaster fall out);
- La lluvia radioactiva del desastre Chernobil (Chernobyl's nuclear disaster fall out);
For
more on the word "lluvia",
visit: Wordreference.com/ Lluvia
*NB
'Click' on the speaker icon next to the word “lluvia”
in the link to hear the word pronounced.
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