Word of the Week: TEMPO

| Mon, 02/03/2014 - 10:30

Given that, unfortunately, news about the (bad) weather continues to make headlines in Italy, our Word of the Week is tempo, weather.

Bad weather is brutto tempo (literally, ugly weather).

The weather is nice translates as fa bel tempo or il tempo è bello.

The weather forecast is previsioni del tempo.  

*Please note that tempo in Italian does not just refer to weather and climate, but also to time.

Listen to Lorenzo Cherubini, aka Jovanotti, to learn the perfect pronunciation of tempo in his 1992 hit, "Non m'annoio":