Today's WOTD is: "nieve" = snow
In
Spanish, “nieve”
is a feminine noun of Latin origin, which means snow.
A
related Spanish noun is “nevera”*,
which means fridge.
Related
Spanish action word/ verb is “nevar”
(to
snow).
Some
commonly used expressions with the words “nieve”are:
- Agua de nieve (melted snow- water);
- Agua nieve (sleet);
- Batir las claras a punto de nieve (to beat egg whites to 'soft'/ 'foamy'/ 'stiff peaks);
- Blancanieves (Snow White);
- Blanco como la nieve (white as snow);
- Bola de nieve (snowball**);
- Cañón de nieve (snow cannon/ snowgun);
- Capa de nieve (snow layer);
- Copo de nieve (snow flake);
- Ir a la nieve (to go skiing/ to winter sports);
- Montar las claras a punto de nieve (to beat egg whites to 'soft'/ 'foamy'/ 'stiff peaks);
- Moto de nieve (snowmobile/ snowmachine);
- Muñeco de nieve (snowman);
- Nieve carbónica*** (dry ice);
- Nieve virgen (fresh/ freshly fallen snow);
- Nieves eternas (perpetual snow);
- Nieves perpetuas (perpetual snow);
- Pozo de nieve* (snow well- artificial);
- Punto de nieve ('soft'/ 'foamy'/ 'stiff peaks formed'- state of beaten egg whites);
- Temporal de nieve (snow storm);
*
NB A “pozo de nieve”, also known as “nevera”
was a storage well used for keeping snow/ ice until the summer.
**
NB The expression “bola de nieve” may not be used in
Spanish to translate the English action word/ verb to snowball.
***
NB Also known as “hielo seco”.
Some
examples of the use of the word "nieve"
and related words are:
- Bebíamos agua de nieve (we drank melted snow water);
- Está cayendo agua nieve (sleet is falling);
- Hay que batir las claras a punto de nieve (the egg whites have to be beaten to 'soft'/ 'foamy'/ 'stiff peaks');
- Blancanieves y los siete enanitos (Snow White and the 7 dwarves);
- Un vestido blanco como la nieve (a dress white as snow);
- Vamos a hacer una bola de nieve (we are going to make a snowball);
- Hace tiempo que no nieva y van a usar cañones de nieve (it hasn't snowed for a while, so snow cannons are going to be used);
- Hay una capa de nieve de unos veinte centimetros de profundidad (there is a layer of snow some 20 centimetres deep);
- Caen copos de nieve (snow flakes are falling);
- Vamos a la nieve este fin de semana ¿no? (we are going skiing this weekend, aren't we?
- Hay que montar las claras a punto de nieve (the egg whites have to be beaten to 'soft'/ 'foamy'/ 'stiff peaks);
- Si no fuese por las motos de nieve estaríamos aislados casi todo el invierno (if I wasn't for the snowmobiles, we would be isolated almost all winter);
- Vamos a hacer un muñeco de nieve (we are going to build a snowman);
- La nieve carbónica no existe de forma natural en la Tierra (dry ice doesn't occur naturally on Earth);
- ¿Desaparecerán las nieves eternas del Pirineo? (will the perpetual snows of the Pyrenees disappear?);
- ¿Desaparecerán las nieves perpetuas del Pirineo? (will the perpetual snows of the Pyrenees disappear?);
- Por la mañana esquiamos en nieve virgen (in the morning we skied on freshly fallen snow);
- Los pozos de nieve se han usado hasta mediados del siglo XX (artificial snow wells have been in use until the middle of the 20th century);
- Se espera un temporal de nieve para mañana (a snow storm is expected for tomorrow)
*NB
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in this link to hear the word pronounced.
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