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piovere

to rain

verb PYOH-veh-reh Less Common
Animals & Nature Weather

Origin: From Latin plovere (to rain).

Usage Note

Piovere is an impersonal verb used almost exclusively in the third person singular: piove (it's raining), pioveva (it was raining). In compound tenses the meteorological sense accepts both e' piovuto and ha piovuto, but figurative uses take only essere — piovono offerte (offers are pouring in).

Examples

"Piove molto in autunno qui."

Natural Translation

It rains a lot in autumn here.

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