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- "Το καπέλο βρέχεται εύκολα."
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Well, "βρέχεται" could just mean that the hat has come in contact with water (of a lake, of the sea etc), so it ended up getting wet. Also check out the first sentence in this link (ashes). "Βρέχομαι" cannot imply something like that.
deryckchan
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Great, thanks, that's the type of explanation that I can count on you to give :) So in this case I guess the more primitive meaning is "[make something] wet", and the active voice has an extra idiomatic meaning of "to rain".