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The French sentence "Il pleut" explained

On this page, we are going to explain you all the things you want to know about the basic French phrase "Il pleut". To be more specific, this includes a detailed explanation of what it is and how to use it in everyday life with an audio example. Not to mention the cool stuff we sprinkled like slow pronunciation audio, dialogue example and more!

Translation in English

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  Translation : It's raining

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  Register : Neutral - Basic

Pronunciation

Slow

Normal

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  IPA : / il plø /

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Example in a dialogue

Dialogue

Bordel ! Il pleut comme vache qui pisse !

Dammit, it's raining like a peeing cow!

Oh non, ça fait chier !

Oh crap!