What is 'Il pleut' when translated from French to English?

"It rains" is a literal English equivalent of the French phrase Il pleut. The pronunciation of the present indicative in the third person impersonal singular -- which famously references the opening line (Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville, "It cries in my heart like it rains over the city") of a poem by Paul-Marie Verlaine (March 30, 1844 - January 8, 1896) and which also translates as "It does rain, It is raining" -- will be "eel pluh" in French.