"Il pleut dehors."

Translation: It is raining outside.

[Lechuza-chouette]

As opposed to raining inside.

[Anglea]

or in my heart

[Astatine-86]

I said these exact words to myself as I opened up the comment section to write this.

[LindaB_Duolingo]

Back while the Earth was still cooling, I had a Parisian French teacher who would give wonderfully Gallic shrugs and say 'Meuph! Where do you theenk eet ees going to rain?!'

[IanWitham1]

It rained heavily, there was a strong wind from the North, the rain came through my wall and fell on my TV and radio. So, it can rain indoors. I am glad you have never experienced it.

[Lechuza-chouette]

No, I did experience it when a typhoon tore off the roof of a place I was living in while I was there.

[IanWitham1]

You win!

[Lechuza-chouette]

I'd prefer to have lost.

[Eat_More_Kale]

I heard her say "Il pleut d'or" and dreamed of a context in which that would make sense.

[Sitesurf]

it would be "il pleut de l'or" - please keep on dreaming...

[Jeffrey855877]

Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or - "The Golden Cockerel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqZcz9ZkMsU

[Jeffrey855877]

You might want to google "golden shower" before spreading this much further. In todays social media, that would not be something to dream about, for most people.

[hurricanechelsea]

That's what I heard, and it kept telling me that it didn't seem to be French. Um... I may have been wrong, but it was at least the right language!

[ericdavis]

dehors can be translated as outdoors, but is not accepted!!

[pont]

So report it.

[dapetras]

where would one utilize 'en dehors' as oppose to simple 'dehors'?

[Sitesurf]

"dehors" is an adverb: you can use it as a stand alone;

"en dehors" can also be an adverb: "que fais-tu en dehors ?" or as a preposition: "que fais-tu en dehors de ça ?" (both meaning: what do you do apart from that?)

[Beovulf]

Where else could it be raining!

[Sitesurf]

If there is a leak in your roof, you can say "il pleut à l'intérieur / il pleut dedans"

[AlistairEl1]

What's the difference between dehors and extérieur?

[Sitesurf]

"dehors" can be a noun or an adverb: il pleut dehors (adv) or il pleut au dehors (noun)

"extérieur" is only a masculine noun: l'extérieur de la boîte est rouge - il pleut à l'extérieur

[AlistairEl1]

Thanks a lot!

[soccergirl94]

pleut and plus are homophones?

[Sitesurf]

No they are not.

pleut = [plø]

plus (positive) = [plys]

plus (negative) = [ply]

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[soccergirl94]

:) :) thanks a million

[pasunparisien]

I answered with "outdoors" and was marked as wrong, but on a previous phrase, "il joue dehors", I answered "he is playing outside" and the alternative correct answer provided was: "he is playing outdoors."

[Learpholla]

Just to say that often you will hear simply "out" rather than "outside", in a sentence like this: "It's raining out".
I was going to try it but I don't think it would be accepted by DL.

[SeanMeaneyPL]

Sprinklers!!

[AlexStingledacht]

could "c'est pleut dehors" work also?

[Sitesurf]

No, "pleuvoir" has a dummy subject: "il pleut" = it is raining.

What you suggest would back translate to "this is raining outside", because c' is a real subject.

[AlexStingledacht]

Right, thank you.