Translation: rain [noun, m]
A useful word, given that
Examples:
Dež
(Rain has interrupted the race.)
Na
(It is going to rain today in the north of the country.)
Sara,
(Sara, it is going to rain today. Take an umbrella!)
Expressions:
Priti z dežja pod
(To come from a bad situation to a worse one. – lit. To come from the rain under the edge of a roof.)
(To grow fast, to spread fast. – lit. to grow like mushrooms after rain)
V tem mestu trgovine rastejo kot gobe po dežju.
(Stores are spreading really fast in this city.)
Related:
deževen – rainy
deževati – to rain
dežnik – umbrella [noun, m]
Extra:
We tend to forget that rain can also be fun! A nice children’s poem describes that well:
Dežek pada cele dni,
še ponoči nam rosi,
in namaka luže tri.
V prvi luži žabica,
v drugi luži račkica,
v tretji luži sem pa jaz-
vsi kričimo na ves glas!
(Disclaimer: a horrible literal translation, but fortunately you are here to learn Slovenian, not to study poetry!
It is raining for many (lit. whole) days,
even in the
filling up three puddles.
A (little) frog in the first puddle,
A duckie in the second,
and me in the third-
we all scream our heads off!
)