How do you say it's raining in French?

10 translations in French

• Il pleut

  Alexander 2011-09-08

• Il pleut

  Mark Humphreys 2015-05-29

• "Il fait pleut" is incorrect (badly so). Most common form is "Il pleut" In Belgium and northern France "Il drache" (for an heavy rain)

  Phoxtrot 2011-06-24

• It's raining men ( Il pleut des hommes ) Il pleut Il mouille ( Québec ) Il pleut à verse (or), il pleut à seaux,(or) il pleut à torrents,(or) il pleut des cordes, (or), il pleut abondamment. all of this means Big big rain. :) And the one that i find vulgar it's: il pleut comme vache qui pisse Traduction-- It's raining like cow piss. :D

  Jessie 2015-11-17

• In Québec we have other alternatives as well. However these are not "Proper French", but joual. Il mouille a seau (equivalent to it's raining buckets) Il pleut a boire debout (It's raining so heavily that you are drinking the rain)

  Stan 2015-10-29

• Il pleut à verse. It's raining heavily.

  James King 2012-09-05

• No, "raining cats (and dogs)" doesn't translate literally. It translates into "Il pleut des cordes" (literally "it's raining ropes") or the above mentionned "il drache"

  Phoxtrot 2011-07-05

• il tombe des cordes, il peut comme vaches qui pissent,

  Mary-France Oudin 2013-04-22

• Il pleut comme un vache qui pisse = it's raining cats and dogs...it is a conversion of the idiomatic expressions between the two languages...

  Justin Anthony 2014-05-19

• Les flottes arrive!! Il pleut comme des cordes! Il pleut comme les vaches pissent!

  The Biglad 2012-12-08