Asked by: Patrick 100752 views french, it's raining
roca on Jun 01, 2011 Reply
Il fait pleut
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Phoxtrot on Jun 24, 2011 Reply
“Il fait pleut” is incorrect (badly so).
Most common form is “Il pleut”
In Belgium and northern France “Il drache” (for an heavy rain)
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peter on Jul 03, 2011 Reply
“Il pleut – des chat”
it’s raining – cats
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Phoxtrot on Jul 05, 2011 Reply
No, “raining cats (and dogs)” doesn’t translate literally.
It translates into “Il pleut des cordes” (literally “it’s raining ropes”) or the above mentionned “il drache”
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Alexander on Sep 08, 2011 Reply
Il pleut
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James King on Sep 05, 2012 Reply
Il pleut à verse.
It’s raining heavily.
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The Biglad on Dec 08, 2012 Reply
Les flottes arrive!!
Il pleut comme des cordes!
Il pleut comme les vaches pissent!
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robert cassidy on Jan 09, 2013 Reply
Paris …1942 …”es regnet “
brianicus maximus on Jan 22, 2013 Reply
cest pleut
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Mary-France Oudin on Apr 22, 2013 Reply
il tombe des cordes, il peut comme vaches qui pissent,
Justin Anthony on May 19, 2014 Reply
Il pleut comme un vache qui pisse = it’s raining cats and dogs…it is a conversion of the idiomatic expressions between the two languages…
Edy Priyambodo on May 24, 2014 Reply
sa précipitation
Mark Humphreys on May 29, 2015 Reply
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Stan on Oct 29, 2015 Reply
In Québec we have other alternatives as well. However these are not “Proper French”, but joual.
Il mouille a seau (equivalent to it’s raining buckets) Il pleut a boire debout (It’s raining so heavily that you are drinking the rain)
Jessie on Nov 17, 2015 Reply
It’s raining men ( Il pleut des hommes )
Il mouille ( Québec )
Il pleut à verse (or), il pleut à seaux,(or) il pleut à torrents,(or) il pleut des cordes, (or), il pleut abondamment. all of this means Big big rain. 🙂
And the one that i find vulgar it’s: il pleut comme vache qui pisse Traduction– It’s raining like cow piss. 😀
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