It in French

In French

sujet impersonnel

Definition

Definition in EnglishA nonreferential grammatical subject required in English statements and questions about weather, time or distance, or used before an evaluation whose content follows in an infinitive clause. It does not stand for a previously identified thing.

Definition in FrenchCe pronom sujet ne désigne rien et s'emploie notamment pour parler du temps, de l'heure ou d'une distance.

Example sentences

Il fait froid aujourd'hui.
It's cold today.
Il est sept heures.
It's seven o'clock.
Il y a cinq cents mètres jusqu'à la gare.
It's five hundred metres to the station.

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