Translation
rain
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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 , and the verb is used with no subject at all: means it is raining, 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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Word family
Words built on pluvo with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- pluvegonoun
downpour, heavy rain
pluvo-eg-: a great rain
- pluvombrelonoun
umbrella
pluvoombrelo
- pripluviverb
to rain on
pripluvo: to rain upon
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 3: pluvo, vagonaro, 艥an臐i臐i and 7 more words.