pluit, ningit (Weather)

It Is Raining

Level 2

One word tells what the sky is doing.

How It Works

Latin has no word for the it in it is raining. The ending -t is enough, so do not add one.

To say it is not, put non before the verb: Non pluit. Add a time or place if you want: Hodie pluit, In Italia ningit.

Weather verbs stay in the third person singular.

To ask, add -ne: Pluitne hodie? Is it raining today? The answer can be just Pluit. or Non pluit.

Hodie pluit.
It is raining today.
Pluit has no subject. The ending -t is the whole sentence.
Non ningit.
It is not snowing.
Non goes before the verb, as with any other verb.
Tonat et fulgurat.
It is thundering and there is lightning.
Two weather verbs joined by et.
Saepe pluit in Britannia.
It often rains in Britain.
Saepe tells how often. In Britannia is in plus the ablative.
In monasterio ningit.
It is snowing at the monastery.
In monasterio tells where it snows.

Adding a word for it.
Id pluit.
Pluit.
Latin has no word for the it in it is raining. The ending -t is enough.

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pluit, ningit (Weather)Level 2It Is Raining

Pluit and ningit are third-person forms of third-family verbs.

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