schwingen

== German == === Etymology === 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 === IPA(key): [ˈʃvɪŋən] Hyphenation: schwin‧gen Rhymes: -ɪŋn̩ === Verb === schwingen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present schwingt, past tense schwang, past participle geschwungen, past subjunctive schwänge, auxiliary haben or sein) (intransitive) to swing (to move back and forth) [auxiliary haben] (intransitive) to move (somewhere) by swinging [auxiliary sein] (transitive or reflexive) to swing (to move something using a swinging motion) [auxiliary haben] (transitive) to wave; to brandish [auxiliary haben] (intransitive, physics) to vibrate [auxiliary haben] (intransitive, physics) to oscillate [auxiliary haben] (intransitive, formal) to resound [auxiliary haben] (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 (intransitive) to be expressed (in someone's words) [auxiliary haben] (skiing) to ski back and forth [auxiliary sein] (reflexive, formal) to arc [auxiliary haben] (regional) to clean (hemp or flax) of wood residues [auxiliary haben] (Switzerland, sports) to wrestle in the Schwingen (Swiss wrestling) style [auxiliary haben] ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “schwingen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “schwingen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “schwingen” in Duden online “schwingen” in OpenThesaurus.de