Language/French/Grammar/Weather-verbs
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Impersonal verbs
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
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"
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
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"
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.