Translation
rain
Examples
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The rain lasted all day.
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We waited under a tree during the rain.
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After the rain the air was fresh.
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Cold rain fell on the fields.
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She fears neither rain nor wind.
Weather in Esperanto is refreshingly tidy. The root gives the noun and the verb pluvi, and the verb is used with no subject at all: pluvas means it is raining, pluvis means it rained yesterday. There is no dummy to insert, and adding one marks you out as translating from English. -- and -- do the rest of the work, so o is a downpour and o a drizzle, and a raincoat is a pluvmantelo. Note that is the water arriving; the general state of the sky is .
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