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 French Impersonal VerbsThe French Impersonal Verbs are these verbs that used il (it) or ce/cela (there)
 French Impersonal verbs with IL
 Weather verbs
 Il pleut - it’s rainingIl neige - it’s snowing
 Il gèle - it’s freezing
 Il tonne - it’s thundering
 Il y a du brouillard - it’s foggy
 Il fait du vent - it’s windy
 Il fait beau - it’s fine
 Il fait mauvais - the weather’s bad
 Il fait chaud/froid - it’s hot/cold
 
 
 Time of day
 
 Il est cinq heures - it’s five o’ clockIl est midi et demi - it’s half past twelve
 Il est tard - it’s late
 
 Il y a 
 Il y a 30 000 personnes dans le stade - there are 30 000 people in the stadium
 
 
 Impersonal expressions
 
 Il s’agit de - it’s about
 Il m’est arrive de - I happened to
 Il faut (que)  - you (we, they etc…) must/need
 Il parait que - it appears that
 Il semble que  - it seems that
 Il suffit de - you only have to
 Il vaut mieux - it’s better to
 Il était une fois - once upon a time
 
 
 French Impersonal Verbs with CE/CELA
 
 CE is used as être subjectCELA is used for any verb as a subject
 
 
 Il est facile de mentir - it’s easy to tell liesSi elle rie, c’est qu’elle ne veut pas en parler - if she’s laughing, it’s because she doesn’t want to talk about that
 
 
 C’est + adjective is very common in spoken French instead il est +adjective
 
 C'est beau quand la pluie tombe - It's beautiful when the rain falls
 
 
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