How to use 因为。。所以 when describing the weather

[mercury_]

I'm trying to write a sentence saying 'Because that day was very windy and extremely cold, we walked very quickly'.

I came up with 因为当天是很风和非常冷所以我们走路很快了 but apparently that's incorrect. Could you please explain how it is wrong? 谢谢

[ghanachief]

windy means the wind is so big. so we come up with 风很大 not 很风. :rolleyes:

[semantic nuance]

People won't say 是很風 to mean 'very windy'. We say: 風很大。In your translation, 和 is not natural in this case, though 'and' means 和。

You can say :

因為那天風很大而且非常冷，所以我們走得很快。'

'因為那天風很大而且冷的要命，所以我們走得很快。

因為那天風很大又很冷，所以我們走得很快

因為那天風很大又冷的要命，所以我們走得很快

[daofeishi]

Also, you cannot have a complement that follows the object of the verb: 我们走路很快。

As Semantic Nuance has already said, the correct way of expressing it would be 我们走得很快 （or 我们走路走得很快)

和 as a connective does not function the same way "and" does in English. Generally you don't use it with adjectives.

我们走路很快了

I wonder if this 了 came about because you thought of the sentence in past tense? Past tense does not exist in Chinese and 了 is not "past tense." It indicates the completion of a verb, but not with respect to ambient time.

[马盖云]

和 as a connective does not function the same way "and" does in English. Generally you don't use it with adjectives.

I have two questions that this raises... the first somewhat more relevant to the OP;

Could you say "天气又大风又非常冷..“ the 又..又 construction to connect adjectives? {I don't know if 大风 works here, maybe 风很大]

Next, I have read in every grammar book I have that 和 can only be used between nouns (or NP's), but I have had a native speaker tell me its OK to use it to connect verbs, etc, which seems wrong to me. Anyone have another opinion?

[daofeishi]

Could you say "天气又大风又非常冷..“ the 又..又 construction to connect adjectives? {I don't know if 大风 works here, maybe 风很大]

You can definitely use 又...又... to connect adjectives. That is one of the main uses of that construction. The following are possible examples:

我妈妈又矮又胖。

今天风又大天又冷。

Next, I have read in every grammar book I have that 和 can only be used between nouns (or NP's), but I have had a native speaker tell me its OK to use it to connect verbs, etc, which seems wrong to me. Anyone have another opinion?

和 is almost exclusively used between NPs, but I have also heard it between VPs, as in "我在去和不去中纠结" or "走和不走都一样". VP和VP is not that commonly used, so I am not sure if those are dialectical or idiosyncratic variants. Perhaps semantic nuance can fill us in?

[gougou]

冷的要命

Should be 冷得要命 yeah?

[semantic nuance]

Ah! It's a typo. It should be '冷得要命'.

Two links related to 的, and 得:

結構助詞 '的' 的用法 '得' 和 '的' 的用法