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schwatzen

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See also: Schwatzen and schwätzen

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German swazzen. See schwätzen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃvatsən/, [ˈʃʋät͡sən], [ˈʃʋät͡sn̩]
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Verb

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schwatzen (weak, third-person singular present schwatzt, past tense schwatzte, past participle geschwatzt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to babble, waffle, prattle, chat
    Synonyms: schwafeln, labern, quatschen, plaudern, sich unterhalten
    • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Walpurgisnacht”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎[1]; republished as Bayard Taylor, transl., 1870:
      Man tanzt, man schwazt, man kocht, man trinkt, man liebt; / Nun sage mir, wo es was bessers giebt?
      They dance, they chat, they cook, they drink, they court: / Now where, just tell me, is there better sport?

Usage notes

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  • For notes on the use of this verb and its widely interchangeable variant schwätzen, see the latter.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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