(intransitive, impersonal) to rain [auxiliary avere or essere] / (intransitive, impersonal, by extension) to drip [auxiliary avere or essere] / (intransitive) to fall (from the sky) (of rainwater) [auxiliary essere] / (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to fall from above, to rain down [auxiliary essere] / (intransitive, informal, figurative, by extension) to come in large quantities [auxiliary essere] / (transitive, literary) to (cause to) rain, to rain down [auxiliary avere]

to rain buckets, to rain cats and dogs (to rain very heavily)

(simile) to rain cats and dogs (to rain very heavily)

Alternative form of piovere come Dio la manda

third-person plural conditional of piovere

third-person singular conditional of piovere