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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Indian Summer #2

Another sunny autumn day today and this word has been added to my vocabulary:

秋晴れ - akibare

I couldn't find it in my Japanese/English dictionary so I looked it up in the 広辞苑 (koujien) Japanese dictionary instead. It said:

秋の、すっかり晴れ渡った天気。
あきの、すっかりはれわたったてんき。


 - aki - autumn
すっかり - sukkari - completely
晴れ渡る - harewataru - to clear up, to be cloudless
天気 - tenki - weather

秋晴れ
 = clear autumnal weather

There are some examples of it's usage here on SPACEALC.

And here's another one from Jim Breen's dictionary:

このところの美しい秋晴れは、雨の多かった夏の埋め合わせをしてくれている。

This beautiful autumn weather we've been having makes up for the wet summer.

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