Language/French/Grammar/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 |
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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 |
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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]
Videos[edit | edit source]
THE WEATHER - FRENCH VOCABULARY (with free PDF & Quiz ...[edit | edit source]
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Verb forms — Introduction
- Indefinite and negative noun phrases with adjective complements
- Easy way of generating the present tense
- Adverb—adjective compounds
- Categories of Nouns in French
- Adjective—adjective compounds
- Coordination of stressed pronouns
- Auxiliaries
- Past Tense
- Compound adjectives involving demi—, nu— and mi—
- Use of stressed pronouns for emphasis
- Use of l'on
- Adverbs ending in —ment derived from the masculine form of an adjective
- Position of object pronouns with infinitives
- Position of object pronouns with imperatives