zwirnen
German, verb
zwirnen is spelled Z-W-I-R-N-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 39 million words in written German, the 371,567th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Zwirnen is a German verb meaning “to twine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Zwirnen is a different word: “dative plural of Zwirn”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “mehrere Fasern zusammendrehen, Zwirn herstellen”.
What does zwirnen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to twine
adjective
- 1
thread
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Zwirn
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. mehrere Fasern zusammendrehen, Zwirn herstellen 2. schmerzen, weh tun
adjective: 1. aus Zwirn bestehend, gemacht
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 zwirnen
- zwirnt present singular third-person
- zwirnte past
- gezwirnt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- zwirnend participle present
- zwirne first-person indicative present
- zwirnst indicative present second-person
- zwirnest second-person singular subjunctive
- zwirnet plural second-person subjunctive
- zwirnten first-person indicative plural
- zwirntest indicative preterite second-person
- zwirntet indicative plural preterite
- zwirn imperative second-person singular
- habe gezwirnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben gezwirnt first-person indicative multiword-construction
- zwirne! imperative singular
- zwirnt! imperative plural
- zwirnener positive nominative strong
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is zwirnen in German?
zwirnen appears about once in every 39 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).