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German
Etymology
From schön (“beautiful, nice”) + Wetter (“weather”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃøːnˌvɛtɐ/, (in compounds usually) /ˌʃøːnˈvɛtɐ/
- Hyphenation: Schön‧wet‧ter
Noun
Schönwetter n (strong, genitive Schönwetters, no plural)
- good weather
Ein atlantisches Hochdruckgebiet bringt uns anhaltendes Schönwetter.- An Atlantic high-pressure area brings us prolonged good weather.
- (figurative, in compounds) fair-weather: unreliable, fickle, unsteady
- Schönwetterfreund ― fair-weather friend
- Schönwetterfußballer ― a moody footballer who only performs when he or his team have a good day
Usage notes
- Chiefly used in longer compounds (e.g. Schönwetterlage) and occasionally with a preceding adjective (as in the example above). Otherwise the phrases schönes Wetter or gutes Wetter are much more common.
- The compound should be distinguished from schön Wetter (with stress on Wetter), which is an informal variant of schönes Wetter. It occurs especially in the idiom schön Wetter machen, also gut Wetter machen, which see.
Declension
Declension of Schönwetter
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