schwarzmalen
German, verb
schwarzmalen is spelled S-C-H-W-A-R-Z-M-A-L-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 65 million words in written German, the 495,385th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwarzmalen is a German verb meaning “to paint a bleak picture, to catastrophize (express an unusually high degree of pessimism regarding the outcome of something)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Schwarzmalen is a different word: “gerund of schwarzmalen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas oder die Zukunft pessimistisch darstellen”.
What does schwarzmalen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to paint a bleak picture, to catastrophize (express an unusually high degree of pessimism regarding the outcome of something)
noun
- 1
neutergerund of schwarzmalen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas oder die Zukunft pessimistisch darstellen
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 schwarzmalen
- malt schwarz present singular third-person
- malte schwarz past
- schwarzgemalt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- schwarzmalend participle present
- schwarzzumalen infinitive infinitive-zu
- male schwarz first-person indicative present
- malen schwarz first-person indicative plural
- malst schwarz indicative present second-person
- malest schwarz second-person singular subjunctive
- malet schwarz plural second-person subjunctive
- malten schwarz first-person indicative plural
- maltest schwarz indicative preterite second-person
- maltet schwarz indicative plural preterite
- mal schwarz! imperative singular
- male schwarz! imperative singular
- malt schwarz! imperative plural
- schwarzgemalt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is schwarzmalen in German?
schwarzmalen appears about once in every 65 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).