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- "Quel temps fait-il ?"
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This may be too informal, but couldn't we translate, "What is the weather," or "How is the weather?" I don't see how to translate this naturally without being a bit loose.
When you click on “temps fait” it says weather as well as time. Why would it not be “what time is it?”
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There are different senses of the word time. For "What time is it?", you would have to use l'heure, which means the specific time of day (as in hours and minutes or time to do something). Temps refers to a more general time like "wasting time" or "just in time". There is also "fois" which refers to how many times something happens as well as multiplication like "seven times seven".
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Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Or whether the weather be hot. We'll weather the weather, Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not!
How's the weather? What's the weather? What's it doing outside today?" or any one of a dozen other ways to ask about the weather is fine. But I still like the idiomatic "What's the weather like?" Why? Because the weather is not like* anything. It's the weather. I like it.
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Yes, Siju, that's right!
Interrogative adjectives agree, in gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural), with the noun to which they refer.
For example:
Quel temps fait-il ? = What's the weather like?
("le temps" → singular masculine noun → quel)
Quelle heure est-il ? = What time is it?
("une heure" → singular feminine noun → quelle)
Quels livres regardez-vous ? = What books are you looking at?
("des livres" → plural masculine noun → quels)
Quelles sont ses intentions ? = What are his intentions?
("des intentions" → plural feminine noun → quelles)
Good luck for the future!
As a native American English speaker from the Upper Midwest (where the weather is always a ripe topic for conversation), we often will say, "What's the weather doing?", or "What's it doing outside?"
quel temps fait-il aujourd'hui ?
est-ce qu'il faut chaud aujourd'hui ?
non, il fait froid aujourd'hui,
il y a de la neige,
le ciel est gris,
il ne fait pas beau aujourd'hui..
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What is the weather doing? Marked wrong but quite common useage UK and also the closest translation of the french phrase
to my opinion is wheater a typo (since I have no choice to do the Nederlands-Frans course
What is the weather like is the same as What's the weather like, in fact the former is better English
If they're "the same," then one is not "better than the other." In fact, there is, in terms of grammatical correctness or English usage, no difference at all. They are, essentially, as you say, the same.
Why was mine marked wrong when I put What is the weather like. This is definitely correct in my opinion.
