Not long ago we talked about pluvas. What's the easiest place to go from there?
Easy. pluvas means "it's raining", i.e. right now rain is falling. But what if you want to talk about last night or tomorrow morning rather than right now?
Remember I said that the as in pluvas was an ending meaning "it's going on right now"? Well, there are two similar endings to cover the past and the future. is is the one meaning: "it's already happened". os is the one meaning "it hasn't started yet, but is going to happen". So ...
pluvas = it's raining
pluvis = it was raining
pluvos = it will rain
Here are some useful roots:
pluv' = liquid stuff that falls from the sky in drops
hajl' = what you get when you freeze it into little (sometimes big) round balls
neĝ' = what you get when you freeze it into little hexagonal flakes
vent' = air moving sideways
fulm' = a big electric spark moving from ground to cloud, or between clouds
tondr' = loud noise you hear when one of those sparks jumps
sun' = round glowing ball that's in the sky during the daytime
lun' = that big round thing that orbits the earth and shows phases
Here are some practice questions; try to answer them with one word each.
How would you say "The sun will be shining"?
How would you say "There was thunder"?
How would you say "Lightning is flashing"?
How would you say "It was windy"?
How would you say "It will hail"?
How would you say "It was raining"?
How would you say "The moon is up"?
How would you say "Snow was falling"?