# schwanen

schwanen is a German verb meaning “become apparent, to dawn”. Forms: schwant, schwante, hat geschwant.

## Forms

- Present (er/sie/es): schwant
- Simple past: schwante
- Perfect: hat geschwant

## In other languages

- Русский: безл. es schwant mir, mir schwant — я предчувствую, мне кажется

## Meanings

1. _colloquial_ to 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.
2. _colloquial_ dread
   - Es schwant mir, dass ich morgen das Klo putzen muss.

## Examples

- 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.
- Uns schwante Übles. — We had a sense of impending disaster.

## Conjugation

### Infinitiv & Partizip

- Infinitiv: schwanen
- Partizip I: schwanend
- Partizip II: geschwant
- Hilfsverb: haben

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