In Japanese, "What is the weather?" is 天気はどうですか？ (tenki wa dōdesu ka ？). It is a phrase.
天気はどうですか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as tenki wa dōdesu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "teh-n-kee wah doh-deh-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam天気はどうですか？ is romanised as tenki wa dōdesu ka ？. Say it roughly like "teh-n-kee wah doh-deh-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
天気はどうですか？ is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
天気はどうですか？ is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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