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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Weather is expressed in different ways in different languages. The fact that English, like many other European languages, uses a mysterious “it” as a subject to say what’s going on is actually the outlier. More languages use a formula more like “rain falls, snow falls, sun shines, etc.”

  So you tell him the “it” stands for “the weather” although that isn’t true. You could more truthfully say it’s a convention and English sentences need a subject. And then you add that “is raining” also transports the idea that it is in the process of happening right now. Don’t question it, accept it.

  Learn a bit of Russian. That language is full of colorful images, irregularities, and inexplicable grammar. More so than English, probably. So you can put him in his place when he complains. Like, dude, y’all don’t even know what blue is!

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  • s0larfl4re@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    i’m from russia, so i do know it, but not as well as i used to since it’s been about 12 years.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s like snow but wetter

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• GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Seriously where on earth is your boyfriend from that he doesn’t know rain? That seems absurd, I’m sure even old school desert bedouins are familiar with the concept.

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  • Karl@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He probably knows what “raining” is. I think he is just confused by the phrase “It’s raining”. Or … He is just messing with her.

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• FactualPerson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The sky is crying?

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Outside” works. So does “the sky”. “It” can also represent “today”, or “right now”.

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Raining is the state of the weather outside. The “it” is implied to be the weather, because nothing else can really be raining.

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• nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It is the weather, or the state of being outside.

  Would it be easier to look up how to say it is raining in his native language? That is what I would do.

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The general ambience is raining.

  We also say:

  • It is muggy, inside or out
  • It is stifling. This could be inside or heat outside
  • It is quiet. Also, inside or out.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is Winter

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VyA2f6hGW4

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• jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Rain is falling

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• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Link him Bill Wurtz’s “history of the entire world I guess” and tell him to skip to 2:08

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Today it’s 70 here, what’s it there?

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• Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe try a language you both understand

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