Vocabulary Part 6 - Weather and Seasons in Korean

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If you’re searching for vocabularies and phrases related to weather and seasons in Korean then you are in the right place. In this blog, we will learn about how to say seasons in Korean.

Let’s start with the very first thing that is “What is the word for season in Korean?”. The word for season in Korean is 계절 (gye-jeol). The season of a country depends on certain factors i.e; temperature, weather conditions and most importantly the Earth’s position in relation to the sun.

South Korea has mainly four seasons- summer, spring, winter and autumn.

-- Summer = 여름 (yeo-reum)

-- Spring = 봄 (bom)

-- Winter = 겨울 (gye-eul)

-- Autumn/fall = 가을 (ga-eul)

Now the next question that comes in your mind is when these season starts and when these season ends every year.

-- Spring = Between April and June

-- Summer = From July to August

-- Autumn = Between September to November

-- Winter = Between December to March

Now, you know seasons in Korean let’s move on towards weather in Korean.

Vocabularies related to Weather in South Korea: -

Here is the list of vocabularies.

English	Korean	Romanization
Weather	날씨	nal-ssi
Climate	기후	gi-hu
Temperature	온도	on-do
Sunny	맑다	mal-da
Hot	덥다	deop-da
Humid	습하다	seup-ha-da
Dry	건조	geon-jo
Heat	더위	deo-wi
Heatwave	폭염	pong-nyeom
Monsoon	장마	jang-ma
Cloud	구름	gu-reum
Cloudy	흐리다	heu-ri-da
Rain	비	bi
To rain	비가 오다	bi-ga-o-da
Rainy Day	비오는 날	bi-o-neun nal
Thunderstorm	뇌우	noeu
Lightning	번개	beon-gae
Snow	눈	nun-bo-ra
Snowstorm	눈보라	nun-bo-ra
Snowfall	강설, 강설량	gangseol, gangseollyang
Below Zero	영하	yeong-ha

Note :-When you want to say temperature in minus say like this

For example: - 

-4 degrees = 영하 4 도 (yeong-ha 4 do)

That’s it for today!!!!

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