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Regenen is a Dutch verb meaning to rain. It is an intransitive, impersonal verb used to describe precipitation caused by rain. The most common construction is with the impersonal subject het: het regent (it is raining). In the past tense the form is het regende. The perfect tense is usually formed with hebben: het heeft geregend, or er heeft geregend.

Regenen is widely used in weather-related speech in both the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders). It can describe ongoing rain, rain in the past, or forecasted precipitation. In everyday language you might hear: het regent vandaag de hele dag, of er wordt regen verwacht. In formal meteorological contexts, regenen is often paired with terms like neerslag or weersverwachting to indicate rainfall as part of weather data.

There are common idioms and variations in Dutch about heavy rain. For example, het regent pijpenstelen is an idiomatic way to say that it is raining very heavily. Etymologically, regenen is derived from the noun regen (rain) and shares its root with related terms for weather and precipitation.

See also: neerslag, regen, weerbericht, weersverwachting.