1. I’m hot
Firstly, it’s worth pointing out how to correctly express the fact that you’re hot in German.
In German, you say I’m hot using the dative form of the personal pronoun I.
Be careful not to directly translate the English sentence “I am hot” into I’m hot as most German speakers will understand this to mean that you are hot in a more sensual sense of the word.
Examples:
I’m hot, so terribly hot.
I am hot, so terribly hot.
It’s too hot for me here.
It’s too hot for me here.
2. What a monkey heat!
The word monkey heat is a colloquial term used for very high temperatures and literally means “monkey heat”. It’s widely believed that the term first appeared at the end of the 18th century in Berlin.
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At that time, the monkey house in the Berlin Zoological Garden was known for being extremely hot, so people started to speak about “heat like in the monkey house”. Over time, the phrase became shortened into the phrase widely used today.
Example:
Tomorrow there will be a monkey heat again.
Tomorrow will be another scorcher.
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3. The imperial weather
Literally meaning “emperor weather,” The imperial weather more colloquially refers to those days of glorious sunshine, blue skies, and comfortable temperatures.
In other words, it’s the weather perfect for an emperor.
It is believed that the term has its origins in Austria as Austrian Kaiser Franz Josef’s birthday, the August 18th, was often bright and cloudless.
4. It’s sweltering hot!
The adjective brooding comes from the verb breedmeaning to breed or to incubate. It is likely, therefore, that it made its way into common parlance about the weather, from the fact that raising younglings involves keeping them nice and warm.
It’s sweltering in here!
It’s sweltering hot in here!
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5. It’s hot!
Similar to the monkey heatthis one means “it is sow hot” or “pig hot”. Perfect for those unbearable heat days.
6. I stew in this heat
More commonly used in the cooking lexicon, the verb schmoren meaning ‘to stew’, or ‘to sizzle’ is often used to express the feeling of being exposed to high temperatures. A comparable English phrase would be, “I am sizzling in this heat”.
7. the sun is beating down!
One popular expression to do with the heat focuses on the source of the problem itself. The verb popping means “to bang” or “to slam”.
Example:
The sun is beating down even when it’s cloudy!
The sun is blazing even when it’s cloudy!
8. “It is ur hate”
If you want to keep it simple, but still extremely Austrian, you can’t go wrong with just saying “it is super hot” using a very typical Austrian expression.
The High German would be “it is very hot“, but in Austrian dialect it’s common to shorten some words (turning ist to is) and use ‘ur‘ in lieu of “very” (meaning very, much, super, or uber). The hate is a good way to imitate hot in the local dialect.