schwingen

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

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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)

   Sie schwingt auf einer Schaukel.

   She is swinging on a swing.

2. (intransitive) to move (somewhere) by swinging
3. (transitive or reflexive) to swing (to move something using a swinging motion)
4. (transitive) to wave; to brandish
5. (intransitive, physics) to vibrate
6. (intransitive, physics) to oscillate
   • 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
8. (intransitive, formal) to propagate (somewhere) as sound, to move throughout (an area) resounding

   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)
10. (skiing) to ski back and forth
11. (reflexive, formal) to arc
12. (regional) to clean (hemp or flax) of wood residues
13. (Switzerland, sports) to wrestle in the Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) style

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