Meaning and validity of 雪ってる


I was talking to one of my friends, and at one point they said

> ドイツ雪ってるはず

Am I right in thinking that 雪ってる means snowing?

I'm aware this is clearly not formal Japanese at the very least, but I've also
never seen it used before at all. Can 雪(る) even be used as a verb?




As you guessed, it surely is "It must be snowing in Germany", said in a very
slangy way.

People usually don't use 雪る, but [coining such
verbs](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/24351/5010) (even from traditional
Japanese words) is not too uncommon among native speakers. You know, English
speakers do it pretty often in casual settings, too. And in this case, there's
a verb 曇【くも】る (雲 + る, "cloudy") which looks similar, so it should have been
easy for them to come up with 雪る.

Of course, don't try to use it yourself until you reach the native speaker's
level, or people would just think you made a grammatical mistake.




As you guessed, it surely is "It must be snowing in Germany", said in a very
slangy way.

People usually don't use 雪る, but [coining such
verbs](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/24351/5010) (even from traditional
Japanese words) is not too uncommon among native speakers. You know, English
speakers do it pretty often in casual settings, too. And in this case, there's
a verb 曇【くも】る (雲 + る, "cloudy") which looks similar, so it should have been
easy for them to come up with 雪る.

Of course, don't try to use it yourself until you reach the native speaker's
level, or people would just think you made a grammatical mistake.

