schwafeln
German
Etymology
Originally dialectal, from East Central German [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃvaːfl̩n/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: schwa‧feln
Verb
schwafeln (weak, third-person singular present schwafelt, past tense schwafelte, past participle geschwafelt, auxiliary haben)
- (informal, derogatory) to waffle
- Coordinate term: schwadronieren
- 2023 March 18, Philipp Brandstädter, “ChatGPT löst Bildungskrise aus: Hausaufgaben aus der Maschine”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
- ChatGPT ist eine Sprachmaschine, keine Wissensmaschine. Das Programm schwafelt, immer selbstbewusst, immer wieder inhaltsarm.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “schwafeln” in Duden online
- “schwafeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “schwafeln”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 657
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