Comprehensive Guide to French Weather, Calendar, and Time Expressions

French Weather Expressions (La Météo)

French weather expressions table

  • Expressions Using "Il fait" (Weather Conditions):

    • il fait gris — It's gloomy (g = gloomy its the only one that starts with g)

    • il fait du soleil — It's sunny (s = sunny its the only one that starts with s)

    • il fait beau — It's beautiful (just remember beau are the first four letters in beautiful)

    • il fait chaud — It's hot (chaud looks like chad, classic white boy in romance, = chad is hot)

    • il fait frais — It's cool (frais, fresh = in the fall n winter the air is fresh so its cool)

    • il fait froid — It's cold (frost is cold, froid looks like frost)

    • il fait du vent — It's windy (vent = air conditoner/ fan. which is somehwat like wind)

    • il fait du brouillard — It's foggy (brouillard sounds like blurry, when its foggy its blurry)

  • Expressions Using "Il y a" (There is / There are):

    • il y a une tempête de neige — There is a snow storm

    • il y a de la pluie verglaçante — There's ice rain

    • il y a un orage — There is a storm (orage looks like rage, the sky is raging so there’s a storm)

    • il y a de la tonnerre — There's thunder (just remember the t is for thunder)

    • il y a des éclairs — There's lightning

    • il y a un arc-en-ciel — There's a rainbow

  • Impersonal Verbs:

    • il neige — It's snowing (neige = white, white = snow)

    • il pleut — It's raining (pleut, pout. = sad. u get sad when its raining)

  • Expressions Using "C'est":

    • c'est nuageux — It's cloudy

Days of the Week and Capitalization Rules (Les Jours de la Semaine)

French calendar, seasons, and time expressions worksheet

  • Vocabulary of the Days:

    • lundi = Monday

    • mardi = Tuesday

    • mercredi = Wednesday

    • jeudi = Thursday

    • vendredi = Friday

    • samedi = Saturday

    • dimanche = Sunday

  • French vs. English Capitalization Rule:

    • In English, days of the week and months of the year are always capitalized.

    • In French, days of the week and months always begin with a lower case letter unless they begin a sentence.

The Seasons (Les Saisons)

  • l'automne = the fall (autome, is fall)

  • l'hiver = winter (hiver is like shiver. in the winter u shiver from the cold)

  • le printemps = spring (temp, temp = sapplings like its the templete for the tree)

  • l'ete = summer (ete = eat, you eat a lot in the summer)

Divisions and Expressions of Time (Les Parties de la Journée, etc…)

  • Time Indicators Relative to the Present:

    • hier — yesterday

    • aujourd'hui — today

    • demain — tomorrow

  • Parts of the Day:

    • le matin — morning (longer M word)

    • l'après-midi — afternoon (après-midi reminds me of afternoon, 2 words combined)

    • le soir — night (bats soir the sky at night)

  • Calendar and Duration Units:

    • un jour / une journée — day (take a joruney in a day)

    • la fin-de-semaine — week-end

    • un mois — month (shorter M word)

    • une année — year