Spanish · Chapter 11 · Lesson 6 · Grammar primer
Impersonal verbs
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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.
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