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The French sentence "Il pleut" explained

On this page, we are going to show you all the things you need to know about the basic phrase "Il pleut". To be more specific, it includes a full guide of what it is and how you can use it in everyday life with an audio example. Together with the cool things we sprinkled like dialogue example, slow pronunciation audio 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!