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Es hat gerade angefangen zu regnen.
It just started to rain.
In German
Es hat gerade angefangen zu regnen.
Es hat ge-rah-de an-ge-fang-en tsoo reg-nen.
🇬🇧 English
It just started to rain.
🇪🇸 Español
Acaba de empezar a llover.
🇮🇹 Italiano
Ha appena iniziato a piovere.
Sentence Breakdown
| Word | Translation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Es | It | Impersonal pronoun |
| hat | has | Auxiliary verb (haben) |
| gerade | just | Adverb |
| angefangen | started | Past participle (anfangen) |
| zu | to | Infinitive marker |
| regnen | rain | Verb |
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Grammar Point
Present perfect tense, Adverb 'gerade', Infinitive clause with 'zu'
Variations
Jetzt fängt es an zu regnen.
Now it's starting to rain.
Der Regen überrascht mich nicht.
The rain doesn't surprise me.