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Questions & Answers about Когда станет не так пасмурно, я надену майку, шорты и пойду гулять.
Why is станет used here? Why not будет?
Станет is the future of стать, which means to become.
So:
- станет пасмурно = it will become cloudy
- станет не так пасмурно = it will become less cloudy / not so cloudy
If you used будет, the meaning would lean more toward it will be, not it will become. Russian often uses стать when talking about a change of state.
So the sentence is about a change in the weather, not just a future description of it.
Why is пасмурно used instead of пасмурный?
Because пасмурно is the form Russian commonly uses in impersonal weather expressions.
Compare:
- Сегодня пасмурно. = It’s cloudy today.
- День пасмурный. = The day is cloudy.
In your sentence, there is no noun like день or небо being described. It is just a general statement about the weather, so Russian uses пасмурно.
This is very common:
- холодно = cold
- жарко = hot
- темно = dark
- светло = light
These often function like it is ... in English.