Weather_verb Weather_verb

Weather verb - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Climate, Erode, Fray, Frazzle, Fret

A weather verb is a special verb form found in English and certain other languages which, in its basic sense, is capable of taking only a dummy pronoun. It is called a weather verb since most verbs of this type are used in reference to weather activity; for instance, It's raining, It's snowing, It's nice, etc.

Weather verbs are common in other non-pro-drop languages; e.g. in German, as Es regnet ("it's raining"). The situation is different in pro-drop languages, such as Italian, which do not require dummy pronouns. However, a similar process occurs in these languages: The Italian Piove ("it's raining"), which has no subject, is syntactically identical to the English It's raining.

See also

  • Valency (linguistics)

Example Usage of Weather

secyutami: Wohooo the Weather this night's very cold..brrrr (lebay)
k2rrt3: Queensbury, NY #Weather @ 08:30AM EST Temp:37.6°F Winds:NE @ 5.3MPH Hum:84.2% Dew:33.3°F Baro:30.38in .http://bit.ly/k2rrt3
boogdogDC: RT @Kimzolciak: @MarkDC Amen take the benz out for a swirl :: don't swirl too much in this Weather.
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