Schönwetter

German

Etymology

From schön (“beautiful, nice”) +‎ Wetter (“weather”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃøːnˌvɛtɐ/, (in compounds usually) /ˌʃøːnˈvɛtɐ/

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• Hyphenation: Schön‧wet‧ter

Noun

Schönwetter n (strong, genitive Schönwetters, no plural)

1. good weather

   Ein atlantisches Hochdruckgebiet bringt uns anhaltendes Schönwetter.

   An Atlantic high-pressure area brings us prolonged good weather.

2. (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 [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Schönwetter
genitive	eines	des	Schönwetters
dative	einem	dem	Schönwetter
accusative	ein	das	Schönwetter

Derived terms

literal

• Schönwetterfront
• Schönwettergebiet
• Schönwetterlage
• Schönwetterwolke
• Schönwetterzone

figurative

• Schönwetterdemokrat
• Schönwetterfan
• Schönwetterfreund
• Schönwetterfußballer
• Schönwetteridee

Further reading

• “Schönwetter” in Duden online
• “Schönwetter” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache