Schönwetter

== German == === Etymology === From schön (“beautiful, nice”) +‎ Wetter (“weather”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃøːnˌvɛtɐ/, (in compounds usually) /ˌʃøːnˈvɛtɐ/ Hyphenation: Schön‧wet‧ter === Noun === Schönwetter n (strong, genitive Schönwetters, no plural) good weather (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 ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “Schönwetter” in Duden online “Schönwetter”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German)