Hello everyone,
I’m not a native English speaker, and would really appreciate your perspective. I know there are differences between American English and British English, and that’s why certain things can be a little confusing.
If you don’t mind answering the question below, that would be of great help.
Let’s say it was really nice and warm, around 80 degrees F. And then suddenly the temperature dropped to around 55 degrees F.
How would you describe that in English? Would ‘It’s gotten so cold’ work? Or is there a better way?
Thank you very much!
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Ooh. Cold snap!
Yep, that’s a perfectly acceptable phrase for that situation.
That could work. Could also say, “Which one of you motherfuckers turned on the AC?”
“Its turned cold on us ain’t it?”
Its at the time of year I just mutter angry things under my breath and debate how much of a pay cut I’m willing to take to move somewhere warm.
Yes, you could definitely say it that way.
“Damn, it got cold!” would probably be how I put it, but “It’s gotten so cold” is understandable.
You could definitely say it that way. I’d personally go “ooh it got cold” but yours sound just fine.
I’d personally say “it got cold, fast” but understand that that is technically not proper english
“The fuck is up with this weather?”
Totally acceptable.
I would probably say “dang it got cold didn’t it?”
The weather trippin
Yeah that’s perfectly fine, grammatical and something that a native speaker would say in a situation like that.
Colder than a witches tit
I might change it to “It got so cold”. But still a normal thing to say.
Yes, that’s a perfect way to say that!
“It’s so cold, why tf do I live here?”
“Wow, it’s pretty chilly, isn’t it?” is my go-to phrase! 😀
“Bit of a cold snap, eh?”
If you’re talking about small talk, people commonly joke by blaming each other for the weather.
“What’d you let it get cold for?” Or “Did you order this cold weather?”
That is an appropriate way of saying it. I would personally use “chilly” instead of “cold” in that exact scenario, but that’s just me being pedantic. In my head I would consider 40’s F and below to be “cold” and 50’s F to be “chilly”. But that’s just personal opinion, I don’t think there are actually rules about the appropriate word to use.
80 to 55? “Great, it got nice out again!”
“It’s gotten so cold” is grammatically correct, and totally fine, but a more casual phrasing would be “it got so cold”. Yes, it’s grammatically incorrect, but it sounds more like a native speaker in a casual conversation
“Cold front came in.” Is a common saying by Texans as we have cold air from Northern states and areas roll in and all of a sudden the temp can drop 20+ degrees in relative moments.
“it’s gotten so cold” is completely grammatically correct and everybody would understand exactly what you were saying.
You could also say “it got cold” but that by itself is sort of odd. If you added something like “oh, it got cold” or “it got cold, didn’t it?” it sounds right
That’s one way to say it. If your question is “does that make grammatical sense and sound natural to an English speaker” then yes it does.
If you’re specifically trying to communicate that today is much colder than yesterday you might say something more like “It’s so much colder out today” or something like that. But that’s minor nuance in what is being communicated.
yours would work, so would “its done come up an igloo in here!”. or “shit, its colder than a witches tittie in a brass bra.”, or “damn dog is stuck to the hydrant again.”.
“Eeeee its all cold now!” would be an acceptable New Mexican English statement
But ‘It’s gotten so cold!’ would be fine
You nailed it.
When discussing the weather in any part of the US other than Southern California, you can always also say, “If you don’t like the weather just wait a minute, because it will change! That’s what we say here in (fill in any of the 49 states as well as Northern California).”
“Are we getting invaded by aliens or some shit? What the fuck is going on?”
I have never experienced a temperature change like that and I would freak out
That’s perfect! Yeah the got/become thing in English is very strange and confusing, but you’ve nailed it.
We usually say “Damn Ohio weather” but your way is perfectly acceptable.
It’s an acceptable phrase, though without context of the time span when it happened, I would assume it would describe something that was incrementally happening over days and “snuck up on you,” like, say, going out in late October. If the temperature dropped suddenly, I would probably say something like “It’s gotten so cold suddenly!”
Plenty of ways to mention the cold. You can be a bit hyperbolic or dramatic if you don’t like the cold, and that’s perfectly normal. Here are a few:
It’s really cold outside
It’s freezing/I’m freezing
Why is it so cold outside?
It’s chilly
The temperature dropped a lot today
“My goodness me, what a cold snap!”
If you’re over 70 years of age!
“Brrrr! It sure got cold!”
Or
“Wow! It got cold!”
“It wouldn’t be so cold if it wasn’t for the wind!” If you live in the Midwest when it’s cold on a sunny looking day. 🙂
I say “it got cold!”. But yours is more grammatically correct. The thing to remember is that our language exists so that we can communicate with each other. If you say “It’s gotten so cold”, anyone would know what you meant by that and is acceptable.
Everyone here is sharing how they would say it, and a lot of those are going to be different depending on what part of the country they’re from. The important thing is that people are able to understand what you mean, and I think you did that with your statement. There is no “better way”!
“My Dick just turned into an icicle!” Is a common expression
Muy frio!
“Wow, it got cold out!”
“Fucking Jesus Christ god dammit, I need to go scrape off my car in this bullshit”
It’s a regional thing really but everyone knows what you mean. Cold will affect warmer populations much differently than us up in the north. In the north we view cold as an inconvenience to our day rather than just being cold if that makes any sense.
“Damn its done got chilly” yes i am from tennessee