Polyglot Dictionary

Schnee

/ʃneː/

der noun A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. snow

    • Es liegt viel Schnee auf den Bergen.

      There's a lot of snow on the mountains.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Mass Scope Individual

Similar words

Eis

Schnee falls softly from the sky in flakes. Eis is solid, frozen water (or, confusingly, also the word for ice cream) — a different substance and a different texture entirely.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

neve

neve is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "snow."

Practice

1 What does Schnee mean?

2 Fill the gap: Es liegt viel ___ auf den Bergen.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches Schnee?

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