anschwellen
German, verb
anschwellen is spelled A-N-S-C-H-W-E-L-L-E-N (11 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 50,363rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anschwellen is a German verb meaning “to swell, rise or bulge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Anschwellen is a different word: “gerund of anschwellen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “an übersteigertem Umfang zunehmen”.
What does anschwellen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swell, rise or bulge
noun
- 1
neutergerund of anschwellen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. an übersteigertem Umfang zunehmen 2. an Zahl oder Intensität zunehmen 3. an Wasserführung zunehmen
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 anschwellen
- schwillt an present singular third-person
- schwoll an past
- angeschwollen participle past
- schwölle an past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 3 strong
- anschwellend participle present
- anzuschwellen infinitive infinitive-zu
- schwelle an first-person indicative present
- schwellen an first-person indicative plural
- schwillst an indicative present second-person
- schwellt an indicative plural present
- schwellest an second-person singular subjunctive
- schwellet an plural second-person subjunctive
- schwollen an first-person indicative plural
- schwöllen an first-person formal plural
- schwollst an indicative preterite second-person
- schwollt an indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to anschwellen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is anschwellen in German?
anschwellen appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).