Usage Note
Estate is feminine despite ending in -e, so it is l'estate calda. Use d'estate or in estate for 'in summer', and note the warm sympathy of the idiom estate di San Martino ('Indian summer'), a brief mild spell in November.
Examples
"In estate andiamo al mare."
Natural Translation
In summer we go to the seaside.
Literal Translation
In summer we-go to-the sea.
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