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chover

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An user
Vai   chover
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   hoje ?

Is it going to rain today?

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An user
Com   medo
😨
   de   chover
🌧️
 ?

Afraid of rain?

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

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃoˈve(ʁ)/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin
Latin
pluit
Cognate with Galician
Galician
chover
Cognate with Spanish
Spanish
llover
In summary

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

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