"in the teens", temperature

Question

In English we can say "in the teens" to mean lower temperatures. I'm only finding "los adolescentes" or "la adolescencia" for the translation of "teen" or "teens".

Any suggestions? Muchas gracias!

Una pregunta muy interesante, me gustaría saberlo también. Hola Bandita. - Aranjuez12, Feb 12, 2013

That must be an American idiom , we do not use that here . - ray76, Feb 12, 2013

It's only relevent in countries that use the Farenheit scale, Ray. - PeterRS, Feb 12, 2013

Not true, it would be even more common in Celsius, as that is considerably warmer that the teens in Fahrenheit. - BigMike, Feb 12, 2013

Answer 1

You can't express the concept of teens in that sense in Spanish. It would have to be something like...

Hoy la temperatura estará entre los 13 y los 19 grados.

Tekk her to get a thermometer, it's quite a big difference, like between summer and winter, over here.. - annierats, Feb 12, 2013

Answer 2

You could say "bajo cero", assuming you're in a celsius country.

But if it's zero degrees today, and tomorrow it will be twice as cold..... - PeterRS, Feb 12, 2013

Yes, - 15C! - annierats, Feb 12, 2013

Answer 3

Since Spanish does not use "teens - fourteen, fifteen, etc" the idiom has no meaning. I would suggest use. La tempuratura es alrededor quince. Or something to that effect.

Update: Thanks to a comment below I looked up the use of ser vs. estar and estar is correct. But it appears that "está" and "estamos" have different meaning.

Estamos is used to discuss the temperature where the speaker is while está refers to the temerature in other locations.

Here is the link I found.

Discussing temperature in Spanish

wouldn't it be esta? And then alrededor de quince. - BigMike, Feb 12, 2013

Probably. I usually write like I think....without thinking. - gringojrf, Feb 13, 2013

Answer 4

Do you mean the temperature has, at last, got over + 9 C? We never say this in England!

Los adolecentes refers only to teenagers, who may, of course be calientes..