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Schwärze

German, noun

Schwärze is spelled S-C-H-W-Ä-R-Z-E (8 letters) and appears 54 times per million words in written German, the 1,596th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwärze is a German feminine noun meaning “blackness, darkness, swarthiness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its umlaut, Schwarze is a different word: “female equivalent of Schwarzer: black woman”. On this page, schwarze is a different word: “strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular”. In lower case, schwärze is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “tiefe Dunkelheit”.

What does Schwärze mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineblackness, darkness, swarthiness

  2. 2

    feminineblacking

  3. 3

    feminineblackening

  4. 4

    feminineblack

  5. 5

    feminineprinter's ink

  6. 6

    femininebaseness, wickedness, atrociousness, heinousness

noun

as Schwarze
  1. 1

    femininefemale equivalent of Schwarzer: black woman

noun

as Schwarze
  1. 1

    masculinestrong nominative/accusative plural

  2. 2

    masculineweak nominative singular

adjective

as schwarze
  1. 1

    femininestrong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular

  2. 2

    strong nominative/accusative plural

  3. 3

    weak nominative all-gender singular

  4. 4

    feminineneuterweak accusative feminine/neuter singular

verb

as schwärze
  1. 1

    first-person singular present

  2. 2

    first/third-person singular subjunctive I

  3. 3

    singular imperative

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

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. weibliche, dunkelhäutige Person

noun: 1. tiefe Dunkelheit 2. schwarze Färbung 3. Mittel zum schwarz Färben

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 Schwärze

  • Schwärzen plural
  • die Schwarze definite nominative
  • Schwarzer genitive
  • der Schwarzen definite genitive
  • die Schwarzen definite plural
  • Schwarzen dative plural strong
  • den Schwarzen dative plural
  • eine Schwarze nominative singular
  • keine Schwarzen nominative plural
  • einer Schwarzen genitive singular
  • keiner Schwarzen genitive plural
  • keinen Schwarzen dative plural

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

English words that translate to Schwärze

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

How common is Schwärze in German?

Schwärze appears 54 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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