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German - Why is the future tense formed like this? (example from textbook)

So I was looking through the textbook on a section about talking about the weather in German. There was a sentence; "Morgen schneit es."
From what i can work out, this means "it will snow tomorrow/tomorrow it snows", so i think its future tense. Why is it formed like this, with the present tense conjugation of "schneien" and not the future tense? And how is it formed like this?
Thanks
because it's correct to say "morgen schneit es" or "morgen wird es schneien". they both mean the same thing and sound fine - just like they do in english
It is present tense. Germans often use the present tense in place of the future tense where the meaning isn't ambiguous. Here, for instance, it can't snow tomorrow right now; it can only snow tomorrow tomorrow. If the time wasn't specified they would have to say, "Es wird schneien", because, "Es schneit", could mean that it is snowing right now.
(edited 8 years ago)

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