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Spanish · Chapter 12 · Lesson 12 · Grammar primer

Impersonal verbs: hay, hace, se puede

How Spanish says 'there is', 'it's cold', 'one can'. The constructions that have no subject.

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Weather is something Spanish makes

Spanish says hace frío, hace calor, hace sol, hace viento: literally it makes cold, heat, sun, wind. Those are nouns, not adjectives, which is why está frío is wrong for it is cold. A few weather words do take estar, because they genuinely are adjectives: está nublado, está despejado.

Hace frío.

It's cold.

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