wechseln

See also: Wechseln

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wëhseln, from Old High German *wehsalōn, from Proto-Germanic *wihslōną, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyḱ- (to change). Compare Dutch wisselen, Luxembourgish wiesselen, dialectal English wissle, more distantly Latin vicis, English week, German Woche.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛksl̩n]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: wech‧seln

Verb

wechseln (weak, third-person singular present wechselt, past tense wechselte, past participle gewechselt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to change, to exchange
  2. to switch
  3. to swap
  4. to vary
  5. to shift

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

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