Weather Without a Personal Subject

Level 6

Weather verbs commonly use third-person singular without a dummy equivalent of English it.

How It Works

Weather verbs commonly use third-person singular without a dummy equivalent of English it. Related expressions with biti use a neuter adjective or adverbial expression.

Dežuje contains the weather predicate without a subject pronoun. In the past, je deževalo uses neuter singular agreement. Adding ono merely because English has it would make the Slovenian sentence unnatural for ordinary weather reporting.

Examples (3)

  1. Dežuje.

    It is raining.

  2. Včeraj je snežilo.

    It snowed yesterday.

  3. Danes je hladno.

    It is cold today.

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Weather Without a Personal SubjectLevel 6

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Use the past auxiliary with an impersonal neuter singular weather predicate.