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I'm working on my Japanese homework, and we're practicing describing weather. We're given charts on temperature to say things like:
カイロは九月が一番あついです。Or, "In Cairo, September is the hottest month."
However, my book does not include how to say something like "In Cairo, June through (the end of) November are the hottest months."
I was wondering if anyone has any solutions on this.
Thanks!
Edit: Addressed a question as the specificity of the phrase in English.
As mentioned から/まで is OK. That's a really basic Japanese 101-style construction that you should be familiar with at a beginner level.
As an alternative start/end point type of constuction, you can use ～から～にかけて, as in the following example from alc:
12月から2月にかけて、札幌の平均気温は氷点下です。
From December through February, the average Sapporo temperature is below freezing.
The expression にかけて refers more specifically to the span of time (or space) between the points you specify, and particularly why that span of time is interesting. You probably wouldn't say something like １２時から１時にかけてランチを食べる. A good English equivalent might be "throughout."
〜から〜にかけて is less explicit, not more. Its start/end points are approximations, not exact.
– istrasci
Apr 1 '13 at 15:17
