Meanings
colloquialto become apparent, to dawn [with dative ‘on someone’] (of an unfortunate realization or future experience; idiomatically translated with inverted objects as 'to suspect, to dread')
Mir schwant nichts Gutes.I sense something bad coming up. / I suspect nothing good will come out of this.
colloquialdread
Es schwant mir, dass ich morgen das Klo putzen muss.
Examples
GermanEnglish
Tom schwante, dass der Plan nicht aufginge.Tom had a feeling that the plan wouldn't work.
Mir schwant Böses.I have a nasty feeling that something awful is going to happen.
Conjugation
Forms without a person.
Infinitiv
schwanen
Partizip I
schwanend
Partizip II
geschwant
Hilfsverb
haben