While I’m almost dying here in Spain because of the heat, I though today’s word should help you a bit talking about the weather (something Spaniards love, at least in my edificio); calor.
Calor is officially a masculine noun, although there are parts of the hispanosphere were people use it as a femenine noun as well (mostly when talking about the heat in the summer).
What does it mean? It can meat ‘heat’ (when talking about the weather) or simply ‘warmth’ (for example in your home).
Sentences
Con este calor no puedo trabajar.
I can’t work in this heat.
Hoy hace calor.
It’s hot today.
Hace un calorcillo agradable.
It’s pleasantly warm.
Pasamos un calor horrible.
It was terribly hot.
Esta chaqueta me da mucho calor.
I feel very hot in this jacket.
Es un hogar falto de calor.
It’s a home lacking in warmth and affection.
*Sentences taken from Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary.
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Hi, Ramses. Did you purposely leave the word “calor” off the end of the sentence “Esta chaqueta me da mucho”? Just wondering if it is some kind of slang thing where the word is implied… or if you simply were typing quickly and left it off by accident. Thanks!
Just a typo, already fixed it. Thank you for noticing it!
Good post. There are other variations and regionalisms for calor, like:
calorcete, calufo/a, calorcito, … al related to the temperature.
calorcete and calorcito can be used in the same context as calorcillo.
Hace un calorcete/calorcito agradable.
calufo/a is like very hot:
Hace un calufo espantoso, no se puede salir a la calle.
Ayer hacía una calufa horrible, me pasé todo el día en la playa.
There is no difference between calufo and calufa so you can use one or the other in the same context. Just remember that one is masculine and the other is feminine.