schwimmen

From Middle High German swimmen, from Old High German swimman, from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną. Compare Low German swimmen, Dutch zwemmen, English swim, Danish svømme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃvɪmən/, , ,

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• Hyphenation: schwim‧men

schwimmen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present schwimmt, past tense schwamm or (chiefly informal) schwomm, past participle geschwommen, past subjunctive schwämme or schwömme, auxiliary sein or haben)

1. (intransitive) to swim (to use swimming motions to move in the water)
2. (intransitive) to swim (for pleasure, as a sport, etc.)
3. (intransitive, transitive) to swim (a certain distance)
4. (intransitive) to transport by floating
5. (intransitive) to float, to be floating
6. (intransitive) to float (somewhere), to move (somewhere) by floating
7. (intransitive) to be doused or covered in liquid
8. (intransitive) to be swimming in (money, etc.)
9. (intransitive) to be moving in a blurry or indistinct fashion, to swim (in someone's vision)
10. (intransitive, colloquial) to lose control (of a situation)

• Schwimmanzug
• Schwimmbad, Schwimmhalle
• Schwimmen
• Schwimmer
• Schwimmflügel
• Schwimmhose
• Schwimmweste

• “schwimmen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “schwimmen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “schwimmen” in Duden online
• “schwimmen” in OpenThesaurus.de
• schwimmen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de