Speaking about weather...

[lurid-me.livejournal.com]

If I want to say "What will the weather be like tomorrow?" Would I use Что or Какая?

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[oryx_and_crake]

Какая погода завтра?
or
Что завтра обещают? (literally "what do they promise (forecast) for tomorrow?")

[tuda-i-obratno.livejournal.com]

Какая погода будет завтра? or Какой прогноз погоды (weather forecast) на завтра?

[lurid-me.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)
(ps. freetranslation.com is -really- off the mark sometimes, ugh)

[lurid-me.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[oryx_and_crake]

freetranslation.com is a permanent source of laughter in our family.

[bwww.livejournal.com]

погода - она, so it should be какая.

[lurid-me.livejournal.com]

Have you been able to find a reliable free translator?
the Babel Fish translator is even worse than freetranslation.com!

[dalyeth-ok.livejournal.com]

You can also say "Что завтра с погодой?" "Что завтра за погода?"

[oryx_and_crake]

I don't believe in any translating software. It may work well between related languages with similar phrase structure. But machine translations from Russian into English (or back) are usually a pure joke.

[aciel.livejournal.com]

The state of the art is SYSTRAN, which you may be able to get to translate things for free for you. Nothing else can really compete, but even that is a really shitty phrase translator.

[vyacheslav.livejournal.com]

OT:

When I worked with the 2000 US Census, there was one family i came across that only spoke spanish. so i translated the questions on babelfish(they had the short form fortunatly) and they barely understood. When they found out how I translated it, we all had a good laugh.

[lurid-me.livejournal.com]

Hmmm I'll try that out with my next assignment and see how it compares, thanks :)

[spiderhood.livejournal.com]

Reliable yet automated translation is only possible for languages which are very close to each other. For example, you can find a decent Ukrainian-Russian translator engine (on-line and free), and Dutch-German tools are often OK. But don't try English-Russian or Chinese-French. Ever! ;)