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- "It is sunny."
"It is sunny."
Translation:Il y a du soleil.
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Soleil is a noun and you must have an article before it so you need to say "du soleil" for sunny or "du vent" for windy.
I understand we need to use "Du" with Soleil. However, I still cannot understand why this change when you add "Beaucoup" for example"
-Il y a du soleil -Il y a beaucoup de soleil
When the verb is negated or after an expression of quantity using "de", the indefinite article or partitive article disappears and only "de" remains:
- Il y a du soleil
- Il n'y a pas de soleil
- Il y a peu de/un peu de/autant de/plus de/moins de/beaucoup de soleil
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Well, "il fait soleil" is in the Tips section: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/fr/Weather/tips
Il fait soleil is accepted now, by the way. 2020.07.22.
I believe that Il fait soleil and Il fait du soleil should be accepted.
fait, in the infinitive is faire, which means 'to do' or 'to make'. When used with the weather, the close translation is 'it is ...' or 'the weather is ...'.
mauvais(e) means bad.
I taught a class with several French-speaking African students and they always insisted on using "ensoleillé".
There are many dialects of French, and therefore different ways to say things have developed. If you're learning the French spoken in Africa, then use ensoleillé. But Duo is teaching the French spoken in France where they say "il fait (du) soleil."
- 739
il y a du soleil, c'est ensoleillé ( aujourd'hui ) are good tanslations in french ( I am natif )
From reading the discussion forums on WordRef, that expression appears to only be in use in Canada → I could find no French natives of France (the French taught here on Duolingo) that use the expression c'est ensoleillé in reference to the weather.
It appears that the adjective ensoleillé is only used with le temps est → Les temps est ensoleillé but that it is rather formal and mainly used by weathermen :-).
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/sunny-rainy.303533/#post-1821131
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/its-sunny-and-windy.3122167/#post-15791253
Sorry, no, not if it is a uniquely Canadian French expression. Duolingo French is set to "parler la française de la France". Just as Duolingo Spanish teaches Latin American Spanish and ignores or rejects many Castillan phrases or words.
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This information is very good to know. Thank you so very much. I knew about the Brazilian Portuguese as oppose to Portugal's Portuguese.
No it does not!!
"fait" is the third person singular present indicative of the infinitive faire → "to make, to do".
"faut", as in "Il faut", is the 3rd person singular present indicative of the infinitive falloir → "it is necessary, must".
They are two completely different verbs.
Remember that "c'" is a real subject. So, "c'est ensoleillé" cannot be a general comment as "il y a du soleil/il fait du soleil". You might use it if "c'" has an antecedent but it would be rare.
Here is what the Académie Française answered to a German teacher:
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I understood your explication, but " c " represents or ( stand for ? ) the weather for me
how will you translate this difference
thanks
"C'est" is not often used to describe an overall weather condition, but "il fait" or "il y a" or "le temps est" or "le ciel est". It is not impossible, but the other options are better.
When it comes to "ensoleillé(e)(s)" in particular, you can use it to describe various things: un jardin/un climat/un temps ensoleillé; une journée ensoleillée.
So, as I said something shortened to "c'", or better "il" or "elle" can be "ensoleillé(e)", but a specific context is necessary.
Why do you say Il pleu for its raining, and Il y a du soleil for it's sunny. What is the difference. I put Il soleil, of course it was wrong?
If I remember correctly (and it is a very long time ago!) I was taught that le soleil brille meant the sun is shining. Similar but maybe not exact enough for DL (if you tried it and it wasn't accepted)?
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I put il y a du vent or il y a du soleil and it's marked wrong BUT when they bring up it's windy or sunny and I put the DU they mark it wrong and put DE. I don't know why I even bother to do this if they are going mark things wrong when I'm answering things the way they want them.
Il y a du soleil: masculine, uncountable noun.
Il y a de la pluie: feminine, uncountable noun.
