I am currently in lesson 1.9 and am learning to properly conjugate verbs. All was going well until I noticed something that stumped me; the sentence “Es regnet.” From the rules that were given, the verb “Regen” when used with the pronoun “Es” would seemingly conjugate to “Regt." Can someone explain why the lesson conjugates the verb to “Regnet?”
Conjugation of the infinitive "Regen"

Julian1018
August 13, 2022

Julia-Rocket-German-Tutor
August 15, 2022
Hallo Julian1018,
Thank you for your question! Conjugating verbs is not an easy task so well done for making it this far already!
I think you might have got the verb “regnen” ("to rain") confused with the noun “der Regen” ("the rain"). While they are very similar “regnen” has an additional “n” which means the the stem is “regn-”. And because the stem ends with “gn”, we need to add an additional “e” after the stem in the "du" ("you"), "er/sie/es" ("he/she/it") and "ihr" ("you", informal, plural) form to make it pronounceable.
Here is how you would conjugate the verb “regnen” (even though “es regnet” makes the most sense here):
ich regne
du regnest
er/sie/es regnet
wir regnen
ihr regnet
sie regnen
Hope this helps!
Viele Grüße,
Julia