chover

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Betekenis

(impersonal,intransitive) to rain (to fall (drops of water) from the sky)
(impersonal,transitive) to rain (to fall (a given substance or objects) from the sky in great amounts)
(transitive) to rain on (to cause to fall in great amounts upon)
(impersonal,poetic,transitive) to fall from the sky (to come or occur in great amounts)
(poetic,transitive) to shower with (to provide with great amounts of)

Frequentie

Met koppelteken als

cho‧ver

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ʃoˈve(ʁ)/

Etymologie

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chover, from Vulgar Latin *plovere, from Classical Latin pluere. Cognate with Galician chover and Spanish llover.