I agree with that AI answer, though you are of course completely right to distrust AI.
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I agree that “Ist es heute sonnig?” is the most normal way to say it, but obviously the verb is not in the second position because yes/no questions do not use V2 order.
Both are correct. Never heard the latter variant in daily talk though, AI is quite right here - it would be emphasizing the "today" part in an unusual way.
Without context though the answer is "guck aus dem Fenster?" :)
huh, the second version sounds more „real” to me, arguably less correct but more colloquial.
Never heard a single person in Germany use it that was around :D
Curious! Perhaps it's either a regional thing or just a different context association? I only think of the predictive version, a variance on "wirds heute sonnig?"
But then again with the pretense case it's not something I'd use either way I think to be honest.
Ja, du kannst beides verwenden / Yes, you can use both