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'becomes wet' and 'gets wet' are to my opinion similar. 'becomes' is even closer to the passive tense used here.
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Does this sentence carry the "raining" meaning? Like "The hat gets rained on easily"?
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.
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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".
"Βρέχω"=to make something wet.
"Βρέχει"=It's raining/It rains
"Βρέχομαι"=to get wet
Hope this is helpful.
