wegschwimmen
German, verb
wegschwimmen is spelled W-E-G-S-C-H-W-I-M-M-E-N (12 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written German, the 293,729th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wegschwimmen is a German verb meaning “to swim away” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wegschwimmen is a different word: “gerund of wegschwimmen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “sich schwimmend wegbewegen”.
What does wegschwimmen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swim away
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wegschwimmen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. sich schwimmend wegbewegen 2. von der Strömung wegbewegt werden
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 wegschwimmen
- schwimmt weg present singular third-person
- schwamm weg past
- schwomm weg archaic past
- weggeschwommen participle past
- schwämme weg past subjunctive
- schwömme weg past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 3 strong
- wegschwimmend participle present
- wegzuschwimmen infinitive infinitive-zu
- schwimme weg first-person indicative present
- schwimmen weg first-person indicative plural
- schwimmst weg indicative present second-person
- schwimmest weg second-person singular subjunctive
- schwimmet weg plural second-person subjunctive
- schwammen weg first-person indicative plural
- schwommen weg archaic first-person indicative
- schwämmen weg first-person formal plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wegschwimmen in German?
wegschwimmen appears about once in every 26 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).