"It is a cold day."

Translation: Estas malvarma tago.

[Insvekk]

Is 'Gxi estas malvarma tago' wrong?

[Kreilyn]

No, it is not!

[rmwns]

I thought it would be wrong. Seeing as Gxi is used as an "it" when a noun can easily be filed in for it. What is the replacer for "it is a cold day?" what is "it"?

[Kreilyn]

Armaan, as you say, when the subject is understood, you can remove gxis, so Gxi estas malvarna and Estas malvarna are two possible answers, and they mean the same!

[MailmanSpy]

Typically in Esperanto, we remove "it" when it is just being used as a placeholder for the subject. Like "It is eight o'clock", we would not use the "it" in the Esperanto translation (and yes, I know that saying the time includes saying the nth+minutes hour). Also, "It is raining" is simply "Pluvas".