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Pronouns

das unpersönliche es

In English: impersonal es (it)

The pronoun es used as a subject that refers to nothing in particular: with the weather, the time, feelings and fixed expressions such as es gibt and es geht. German needs it because a sentence must have a subject.

Example: Es regnet. Es gibt heute Suppe. (It is raining. There is soup today.)

See also

das Personalpronomen das Pronomen

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