"chover no molhado" meaning in All languages combined

See chover no molhado on Wiktionary

Verb [Portuguese]

Forms: chovo no molhado [first-person, present, singular], chovi no molhado [first-person, preterite, singular], chovido no molhado [participle, past]
Etymology: Literally, “to rain on wet”. Etymology templates: {{yesno||l|L}} L, {{m-g|to rain on wet}} “to rain on wet”, {{lit|to rain on wet}} Literally, “to rain on wet” Head templates: {{pt-verb}} chover no molhado (first-person singular present chovo no molhado, first-person singular preterite chovi no molhado, past participle chovido no molhado)
  1. (idiomatic) to carry coals to Newcastle (do something unneeded or redundant) Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-chover_no_molhado-pt-verb-AzQgXi4z Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header
     
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "l",
        "3": "L"
      },
      "expansion": "L",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to rain on wet"
      },
      "expansion": "“to rain on wet”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to rain on wet"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to rain on wet”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to rain on wet”.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chovo no molhado",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chovi no molhado",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chovido no molhado",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chover no molhado (first-person singular present chovo no molhado, first-person singular preterite chovi no molhado, past participle chovido no molhado)",
      "name": "pt-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to carry coals to Newcastle (do something unneeded or redundant)"
      ],
      "id": "en-chover_no_molhado-pt-verb-AzQgXi4z",
      "links": [
        [
          "carry coals to Newcastle",
          "carry coals to Newcastle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to carry coals to Newcastle (do something unneeded or redundant)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chover no molhado"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "",
        "2": "l",
        "3": "L"
      },
      "expansion": "L",
      "name": "yesno"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to rain on wet"
      },
      "expansion": "“to rain on wet”",
      "name": "m-g"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to rain on wet"
      },
      "expansion": "Literally, “to rain on wet”",
      "name": "lit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “to rain on wet”.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chovo no molhado",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chovi no molhado",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "preterite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chovido no molhado",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chover no molhado (first-person singular present chovo no molhado, first-person singular preterite chovi no molhado, past participle chovido no molhado)",
      "name": "pt-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Portuguese idioms",
        "Portuguese lemmas",
        "Portuguese multiword terms",
        "Portuguese verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to carry coals to Newcastle (do something unneeded or redundant)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "carry coals to Newcastle",
          "carry coals to Newcastle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to carry coals to Newcastle (do something unneeded or redundant)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chover no molhado"
}

Download raw JSONL data for chover no molhado meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-03-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-03-03 using wiktextract (05c257f and 9d9a410). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.