abschweifend
German, adjective
abschweifend is spelled A-B-S-C-H-W-E-I-F-E-N-D (12 letters) and appears about once in every 50 million words in written German, the 428,887th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abschweifend is a German adjective meaning “digressing, meandering, wandering, digressive, excursive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of abschweifen.
What does abschweifend mean in English?
adjective
- 1
digressing, meandering, wandering, digressive, excursive
Ihr Schreibstil ist etwas zu abschweifend.
verb
- 1
present participle of abschweifen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of abschweifend
- abschweifender masculine nominative singular
- am abschweifendsten superlative
- abschweifende feminine nominative singular
- abschweifendes neuter nominative singular
- abschweifenden genitive masculine singular
- abschweifendem dative masculine singular
- der abschweifende definite includes-article masculine
- die abschweifende definite feminine includes-article
- das abschweifende definite includes-article neuter
- die abschweifenden definite includes-article nominative
- des abschweifenden definite genitive includes-article
- der abschweifenden definite feminine genitive
- dem abschweifenden dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce abschweifend?
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to abschweifend
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is abschweifend in German?
abschweifend appears about once in every 50 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).