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schleudern

German, verb

schleudern is spelled S-C-H-L-E-U-D-E-R-N (10 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written German, the 24,295th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schleudern is a German verb meaning “to hurl; to fling; to sling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schleudern is a different word: “gerund of schleudern”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “transitiv, mit Hilfsverb „haben“”.

What does schleudern mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to hurl; to fling; to sling

  2. 2

    to centrifuge; to spin

  3. 3

    to skid

noun

as Schleudern
  1. 1

    neutergerund of schleudern

noun

as Schleudern
  1. 1

    plural of Schleuder

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

verb: 1. transitiv, mit Hilfsverb „haben“: 2. etwas mit großem Schwung von sich werfen 3. jemandem etwas entgegenbringen 4. etwas durch schnelle Rotation unter Ausnutzung der Fliehkraft trocknen

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 schleudern

  • schleudert present singular third-person
  • schleuderte past
  • geschleudert participle past
  • haben auxiliary
  • sein auxiliary
  • haben or sein auxiliary
  • schleudernd participle present
  • schleudre first-person indicative present
  • schleudere first-person indicative present
  • schleuder first-person indicative present
  • schleuderst indicative present second-person
  • schleuderest second-person singular subjunctive
  • schleudrest second-person singular subjunctive
  • schleuderet plural second-person subjunctive
  • schleudret plural second-person subjunctive
  • schleuderten first-person indicative plural
  • schleudertest indicative preterite second-person
  • schleudertet indicative plural preterite

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to schleudern

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is schleudern in German?

schleudern appears 2.0 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).

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