schönreden
German, verb
schönreden is spelled S-C-H-Ö-N-R-E-D-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 45,845th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schönreden is a German verb meaning “to embellish, to sugarcoat, to whitewash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schönreden is a different word: “gerund of schönreden”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas in positivem Licht darstellen, obwohl es tatsächlich nicht so ist”.
What does schönreden mean in English?
verb
- 1
to embellish, to sugarcoat, to whitewash
sich etwas schönreden
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schönreden
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas in positivem Licht darstellen, obwohl es tatsächlich nicht so ist
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 schönreden
- redet schön present singular third-person
- redete schön past
- schöngeredet participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schönredend participle present
- schönzureden infinitive infinitive-zu
- rede schön first-person indicative present
- reden schön first-person indicative plural
- redest schön indicative present second-person
- redeten schön first-person indicative plural
- redetest schön indicative preterite second-person
- redetet schön indicative plural preterite
- red schön! imperative singular
- rede schön! imperative singular
- redet schön! imperative plural
- schöngeredet haben active infinitive perfect
- schöngeredet werden processual-passive infinitive present
- schöngeredet worden sein processual-passive infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to schönreden
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is schönreden in German?
schönreden 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).