schwatzen

From Middle High German swazzen. See schwätzen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃvatsən/, [ˈʃʋät͡sən], [ˈʃʋät͡sn̩]

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schwatzen (weak, third-person singular present schwatzt, past tense schwatzte, past participle geschwatzt, auxiliary haben)

1. to babble, waffle, prattle, chat

   Synonyms: schwafeln, labern, quatschen, plaudern, sich unterhalten

   • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Walpurgisnacht”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎; republished as Bayard Taylor, transl., 1870:

     Man tanzt, man schwazt, man kocht, man trinkt, man liebt; / Nun sage mir, wo es was bessers giebt?

     They dance, they chat, they cook, they drink, they court: / Now where, just tell me, is there better sport?

• For notes on the use of this verb and its widely interchangeable variant schwätzen, see the latter.

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• Geschwätz, geschwätzig
• Schwatz, Schwätzchen
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• “schwatzen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “schwatzen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “schwatzen” in Duden online
• “schwatzen” in OpenThesaurus.de