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Weather verbs

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Impersonal verbs[edit | edit source]

Most verbs are personal: they must be conjugated to different persons, such as:

  • "manger" (to eat): je mange (I eat), tu manges (you eat), etc.

However, some verbs are used impersonaly, meaning they only have one conjugation, the third person singular.

  • we can say "Il pleut". However, we cannot say "Je pleus".

Impersonal weather verbs[edit | edit source]

The best-known group of impersonal verbs describe the weather:

French Translation
II pleut (beaucoup) It's raining (a lot)
Il mouille (coloquial) It's raining a lot
Il pleut des cordes  It's raining cats and dogs
Il grêle (beaucoup)  It's sleeting (a lot)
Il neige  (beaucoup) It's snowing (a lot)
Il vente  (beaucoup) It's (very) windy
Il tonne (beaucoup) There's (a lot of) thunder
Il bruine (beaucoup)  It's drizzling (a lot)

Impersonal use of the verb "faire"[edit | edit source]

The weather conditions can be expressed by an impersonal use of "faire" followed by an adjective or a noun:

French Translation
Il fait (très, trop) beau  Weather is (very, too) good
Il fait (très, trop) mauvais (Il fait un mauvais temps) / Il fait moche (coloquial) Weather is (very, too) bad
Il fait soleil It's sunny
Il fait (très, trop) chaud  It's (very, too) hot
Il fait (très, trop) lourd  The weather is (very, too) oppressive
Il fait (très, trop) sec  It's very (very, too) dry
Il fait (très, trop) humide It's very (very, too) humid
Il fait du brouillard  It's foggy
Il fait de l'orage (orageux) It's stormy
Il fait un froid de canard  It's very cold
Il fait du vent (il faut beaucoup de vent) It's windy (it's very windy)
Il fait (très, trop) bon it's nice out

Video: How to talk about the weather in French / la météo en francais / FRENCH LESSON - A1 lesson[edit | edit source]

How to talk about the weather in French. How to say it's sunny, it's windy, it's cloudy, it's raining / the weather, the weather forecast in French: it's sunny, it's bad, it's cloudy / what's the weather like in French.


Video - comptine pour enfants (nursery rhyme) : "Il pleut il mouille"[edit | edit source]

Children know how to use impersonal verbs like in this rhyme: "il pleut, il mouille, c'est la fête à la grenouille" (it's raining, it's wet, it's a frog party). 😄

We can use the traditional verb, “pleuvoir”, as well as the transitive verb, “mouiller”. The latter is used more colloquially, and it indicates greater intensity of rain.

Other Chapters[edit | edit source]

Table of Contents

Nouns


Determiners


Personal and impersonal pronouns


Adjectives


Adverbs


Numbers, measurements, time and quantifiers


Verb forms


Verb constructions


Verb and participle agreement


Tense


The subjunctive, modal verbs, exclamatives and imperatives


The infinitive


Prepositions


Question formation


Relative clauses


Negation


Conjunctions and other linking constructions

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THE WEATHER - FRENCH VOCABULARY (with free PDF & Quiz ...[edit | edit source]

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