"现在下雨了！"
Translation:It's raining now!
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It indicates a change in the situation, so this sentence would be used if you looked outside and said "oh, it's raining now" but not if it's been raining for a week straight.
It can also be used for a more extreme statement using an exclamation mark as this one does. Another example is that it always has to be used with 太 at the end of statement as with tài guì le. 太贵了
It doesn't really translate the change of state that's implied by the 了. "It's raining now" implies it wasn't raining a moment ago, which is what the 了 indicates. "It's raining" alone is technically correct, but fails to demonstrate understanding of that difference.
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In North American English it doesnt sound correct to say it that way. We use the "now" either at the beginning of the sentence, or at the very end. Now it's raining. It's raining now.
It's not quite the same though. "Right now" really focus on the point in time, irrespective of what happened or might happen. 了 is focused on the change. My mother in law commonly used 下雨了 to indicate it just stopped raining, for example.
Well but in that case the English should be “it's now raining” (change of state) as opposed to “it's raining now” (contrast of occasion, and differing from “it's raining right now” only in allowing for off-and-on rain).
雨 is just a noun, so it can't describe the action of raining on its own. 下 is the verb here, showing that the rain is coming down.
With Duolingo, I find it impossible to properly distinguish when to pronounce "le" or "liao". Definitely one of the weakest parts of this course considering it's such a commonly used character. It's like they don't even care about the distinction.
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2020.7.10
"liao" is general pronounced as part of a compound hanzi. For example,
了解 [liao3jie3]
了结 [liao3jie2]
It's usually pronounced "le" at the end of a sentence, or after a verb
The need for the word 'now' in the translation is totally absurd. In English, one does not say 'It's raining' when referring to anytime but 'now' -- not yesterday, not tomorrow... The activity has to be happening at that time; it is understood. Why the Chinese insists on including this unnecessary word when Chinese itself EXcludes so many words that other languages would insist on is beyond me.
