wegfegen
German, verb
wegfegen is spelled W-E-G-F-E-G-E-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 216,904th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wegfegen is a German verb meaning “to sweep away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wegfegen is a different word: “gerund of wegfegen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Besen/Feger entfernen”.
What does wegfegen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to sweep away
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wegfegen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Besen/Feger entfernen 2. etwas durch Windkraft entfernen 3. sehr schnell entfernen, radikal verändern 4. sich sehr schnell (über, von etwas weg) bewegen
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 wegfegen
- fegt weg present singular third-person
- fegte weg past
- weggefegt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wegfegend participle present
- wegzufegen infinitive infinitive-zu
- fege weg first-person indicative present
- fegen weg first-person indicative plural
- fegst weg indicative present second-person
- fegest weg second-person singular subjunctive
- feget weg plural second-person subjunctive
- fegten weg first-person indicative plural
- fegtest weg indicative preterite second-person
- fegtet weg indicative plural preterite
- feg weg! imperative singular
- fege weg! imperative singular
- fegt weg! imperative plural
- sein auxiliary perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wegfegen in German?
wegfegen appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).