schwimmen.
to swim (to use swimming motions to move in the water)
Meaning & usage
to swim (to use swimming motions to move in the water)
to swim (for pleasure, as a sport, etc.)
to swim (a certain distance)
to transport by floating
to float, to be floating
to float (somewhere), to move (somewhere) by floating
to be doused or covered in liquid
to be swimming in (money, etc.)
to be moving in a blurry or indistinct fashion, to swim (in someone's vision)
to lose control (of a situation)
Where this word comes from
From Middle High German swimmen, from Old High German swimman, from Proto-West Germanic *swimman, from Proto-Germanic *swimmaną. Compare Low German swimmen, Dutch zwemmen, English swim, Danish svømme.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.