The verb for "raining"?

[SkyDiver]

I'm confused about this one. On "Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Server" it suggests 降り籠める
but my Japanese friend told me あめがふる. She was confused when I confronted her with 降り籠める because she never heard that one before. Is this a uncommon phrase? And how can I say "snow" and "snowing"?

thanks!

[markystar]

i don't know that other phrase, but the standard raining/snowing is:

雨が降ってる
あめがふってる
"it's raining"
雪が降ってる
ゆきがふってる
"it's snowing"

[Shaydwyrm]

振り込める　is the more common kanji, I think, and this word means specifically "to rain and keep people indoors". 込める　often adds this sort of sense when it comes at the end of a compound verb. Actually, while I don't imagine this word specifically is particularly common, the way the compound verb is formed is a pretty common pattern, and both 降る　and 込める　are fairly common, so any native speaker could infer the meaning without hearing the word itself before.

Be very careful when searching E -> J. If you absolutely have to do it, check the example sentences carefully to make sure you got the right meaning/connotation, and also try googling the result to see how common it is.

[jp101crew]

雨(雪)が降っている is good enough! but 降り込める sounds to me like "it's pouring".
Also as Shaydwyrm-san mentioned "降り込める" , however, native speaker could infer that " rain is coming inside", 振り込む or 降り込んで来る is clearer to understand the meaning "rain is coming inside"

plus 振り込める means "be able to pay a bill to a bank account"

[Ulver_684]

i don't know that other phrase, but the standard raining/snowing is:

雨が降ってる
あめがふってる
"it's raining"
雪が降ってる
ゆきがふってる
"it's snowing"

Marky-san!

I can see clearly now the rain is gone, I can see all obsticules in my way, he is the rainbow I been praying for, it's gonna be bright, bright sunshine ehhhehhh.

I love that 70's song, this was a great topic!