Word
Chove muito aqui em janeiro.
Meaning
It rains a lot here in January.
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Chove muito aqui em janeiro.
Where is the word for 'it' in this sentence?
Portuguese doesn't use a placeholder subject like 'it' for weather. The verb chove all by itself means 'it rains'.
Why doesn't muito change its ending to match anything in this sentence?
Is it a mistake that janeiro starts with a lowercase letter?
No! Unlike in English, months of the year and days of the week are not capitalized in Portuguese unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.
Why do we use em janeiro instead of no janeiro?
With months of the year, Portuguese uses the simple preposition em (in). We only use no (which is em + o) when we need to say 'in the', and Portuguese does not say 'in the January'.