schwertun
German, verb[ˈʃveːɐ̯ˌtuːn]
schwertun is spelled S-C-H-W-E-R-T-U-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written German, the 211,221st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Schwertun is a German verb meaning “to struggle, to find difficult” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Schwierigkeiten, Mühe haben; (mit jemandem, etwas) nur schwer, mühevoll fertigwerden”.
What does schwertun mean in English?
verb
- 1
to struggle, to find difficult
Sie tut sich schwer mit ungewohnten Situationen.
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Schwierigkeiten, Mühe haben; (mit jemandem, etwas) nur schwer, mühevoll fertigwerden
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 schwertun
- tut schwer present singular third-person
- tat schwer past
- schwergetan participle past
- täte schwer past subjunctive
- haben auxiliary
- schwertuend participle present
- schwerzutun infinitive infinitive-zu
- tue schwer first-person indicative present
- tun schwer first-person indicative plural
- tuen schwer first-person plural subjunctive
- tust schwer indicative present second-person
- tuest schwer second-person singular subjunctive
- tuet schwer plural second-person subjunctive
- taten schwer first-person indicative plural
- täten schwer first-person plural subjunctive
- tatest schwer indicative preterite second-person
- tatst schwer indicative preterite second-person
- tatet schwer indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce schwertun?
- [ˈʃveːɐ̯ˌtuːn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is schwertun in German?
schwertun appears about once in every 14 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).