The following weather terms are nouns:
- somra sun
- jat cloud
- päis fog
- olstor wind
- soraz lightning
- rakän thunder
- storlël rain
- car snow
- kernos storm
somra always uses the formal definite article asem.
The remainder generally use the indefinite, informal article ipena.
The following weather terms are verbs:
- sotrop to shine
- yan to blow (used for wind or storms)
- gas to loom (used for clouds or fog)
- poljür to gather or begin (used for clouds, rain, snow, or storms)
- zlok to depart or end (used for clouds, fog, rain, snow, or storms)
- kreori to fall (used for fog, rain, or snow)
Examples:
- ipena jateda gasap It is cloudy (literally: clouds loom)
- ipena olstor yanap It is windy (literally: a wind blows)
- asem somra sotrop It is sunny (literally: the sun shines)
- asem somra za sotrop kal It is dull (literally: the sun not shines)
- ipena päis zlokeda The fog is lifting (literally: a fog departs)
The modifiers pesa big and krepesa not big (ie. small) are used to modify the nouns. Examples:
- ipena storlël pesa kreori A heavy rain falls / Its a downpour (literally: a rain big falls)
- ipena olstor kreori poljür A breeze is beginning (literally: a wind small begins)
