for context, he is not native english speaker as you could probably tell. do i just say outside is raining?

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    In English, in order to form a valid sentence, there needs to be at least one noun. While you can say “what’s the weather?” “raining,” as a reply, if there’s no implied subject, an empty noun must be established first. English would use “it” as a pure empty noun for the sake of the sentence.