📖LearnModule 2 · Lesson 20 of 30Basic User · CEFR A1, completedUnit 4 · The date and the weather
Llueve, nieva — more weather
Module 2 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A1, completed), lesson 20 of 30: Rain and snow get their own verbs: llueve (it rains), nieva (it snows). On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
llueve
it rains
YWEH-beh
nieva
it snows
NYEH-bah
está lloviendo
it is raining
ehs-TAH yoh-BYEHN-doh
está nevando
it is snowing
ehs-TAH neh-BAHN-doh
está nublado
it is cloudy
ehs-TAH noo-BLAH-doh
la lluvia
the rain
lah YOO-byah
la nieve
the snow
lah NYEH-beh
el viento
the wind
ehl BYEHN-toh
mucho
a lot
MOO-choh
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Rain and snow get their own verbs: llueve (it rains), nieva (it snows). For right now Spanish adds estar: está lloviendo (it is raining), está nevando. Clouds take estar too: está nublado.
Y también · And also
Weather plus season plus month is a real paragraph: En invierno nieva. En verano hace calor y hace sol. En octubre llueve mucho.
Ojo · Watch out
llueve is what the sky does; la lluvia is the rain itself. Same for nieva and la nieve. The verb and the noun look alike and are not the same word.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with llueve.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 20 in Module 2 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.