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GERMAN VERB

schneien

to snow

  • #423 most used
  • Weak verb
  • Past participle: geschneit

Conjugation

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Present

Präsens · now, habits and facts

  1. es it snows

Simple past

Präteritum · the past of writing, and of sein, haben and the modals in speech

  1. es it snowed

Perfect

Perfekt · the past of speech: “habe gemacht”

  1. es it has snowed

Future

Futur I · “werden”; in speech the present with “morgen” does the job

  1. es it will snow

Conditional

Konjunktiv II · “would”: “würde”, and “wäre”, “hätte”, “könnte”

  1. es it would snow

How to use schneien

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present

    Schau mal aus dem Fenster, es schneit!

    Look out of the window, it's snowing!

  2. Simple past

    Letzten Winter schneite es hier kaum.

    Last winter it hardly snowed here.

  3. Perfect

    Heute Nacht hat es zwanzig Zentimeter geschneit.

    It snowed twenty centimetres last night.

  4. Future

    Am Wochenende wird es in den Bergen schneien.

    It'll snow in the mountains at the weekend.

  5. Conditional

    Wenn es kälter wäre, würde es schneien.

    If it were colder, it would snow.

Good to know

  • Es schneit: only with es, like es regnet.

Where you hear schneien

The lessons that teach a form of it, and how they say it.

German · Beginner Level 2

  • Es schneit. It's snowing.
  • Es hat geschneit. It snowed.
  • Morgen schneit es wieder. Tomorrow it will snow again.
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Snow in the Courtyard

Beginner Level 2 · Guten Morgen, Herr Becker! Es hat geschneit. · Es schneit!

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