schwingen

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German swingen, from Old High German swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swinganą. Cognate with Low German swingen, English swing. Doublet of swingen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈʃvɪŋən]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: schwin‧gen
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩

Verb

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schwingen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present schwingt, past tense schwang, past participle geschwungen, past subjunctive schwänge, auxiliary haben or sein)

  1. (intransitive) to swing (to move back and forth) [auxiliary haben]
    Sie schwingt auf einer Schaukel.
    She is swinging on a swing.
  2. (intransitive) to move (somewhere) by swinging [auxiliary sein]
  3. (transitive or reflexive) to swing (to move something using a swinging motion) [auxiliary haben]
  4. (transitive) to wave; to brandish [auxiliary haben]
  5. (intransitive, physics) to vibrate [auxiliary haben]
  6. (intransitive, physics) to oscillate [auxiliary haben]
    • 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 5/2010, page 106:
      Das grundlegende Problem aller optischen Mikroskope ist das Licht: Es schwingt, je nach Farbe, mit einer Wellenlänge von einigen hundert Nanometern.
      The fundamental problem of all optical microscopes is the light: it oscillates, depending on the color, with a wavelength of a few hundred nanometers.
  7. (intransitive, formal) to resound [auxiliary haben]
  8. (intransitive, formal) to propagate (somewhere) as sound, to move throughout (an area) resounding [auxiliary sein]
    der Klang der Glocken schwang durch die Stadtthe sound of the bells resounded throughout the city
  9. (intransitive) to be expressed (in someone's words) [auxiliary haben]
  10. (skiing) to ski back and forth [auxiliary sein]
  11. (reflexive, formal) to arc [auxiliary haben]
  12. (regional) to clean (hemp or flax) of wood residues [auxiliary haben]
  13. (Switzerland, sports) to wrestle in the Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) style [auxiliary haben]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • schwingen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • schwingen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • schwingen” in Duden online
  • schwingen” in OpenThesaurus.de