schwächen
German, verb
schwächen is a German verb meaning “to weaken, to debilitate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schwächen is a different word: “plural of Schwäche”. Without its umlaut, schwachen is a different word: “strong genitive masculine/neuter singular”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “schwach machen”.
What does schwächen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to weaken, to debilitate
- 2
obsoleteto defile, to disgrace
- 3
obsoleteto rape, to swive without consent
noun
- 1
plural of Schwäche
adjective
- 1
masculineneuterstrong genitive masculine/neuter singular
- 2
weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
- 3
masculinestrong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
- 4
strong dative plural
- 5
weak/mixed all-case plural
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. schwach machen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of schwächen
- schwächt present singular third-person
- schwächte past
- geschwächt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schwächend participle present
- schwäche first-person indicative present
- schwächst indicative present second-person
- schwächest second-person singular subjunctive
- schwächet plural second-person subjunctive
- schwächten first-person indicative plural
- schwächtest indicative preterite second-person
- schwächtet indicative plural preterite
- schwäch imperative second-person singular
- habe geschwächt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geschwächt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- schwäch! imperative singular
- schwäche! imperative singular
- schwächt! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schwächen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schwächen in German?
schwächen appears 13 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).