schwingen

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃvɪŋən]

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• Hyphenation: schwin‧gen
• Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩

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, 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 Stadt ― the 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]

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