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Auf Fridas Bildschirm schwankt der Kurs der Aktie wie eine Welle. On Frida's screen, the share price goes up and down like a wave.

verb · B2

schwanken

[ˈʃvaŋkn̩]

to fluctuate, to waver

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Grammar

Present
er/sie/es schwankt What happens now or usually.
Simple past (Präteritum)
er/sie/es schwankte The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfect (Perfekt)
er/sie/es hat geschwankt The past in conversation. Verbs of movement or change take "ist", most others "hat".

Conjugation

The verb in every person; under each table, when German uses it.

Indikativ
Person Präsens Präteritum Perfekt
ich schwankeschwanktehabe geschwankt
du schwankstschwanktesthast geschwankt
er/sie/es schwanktschwanktehat geschwankt
wir schwankenschwanktenhaben geschwankt
ihr schwanktschwanktethabt geschwankt
sie/Sie schwankenschwanktenhaben geschwankt
Präsens
What happens now or usually; with a time word also the future.
Präteritum
The past in stories and in writing; in speech mostly with sein, haben and the modal verbs.
Perfekt
The past in conversation.
More Tenses and Moods
Indikativ
Person Plusquamperfekt Futur I Futur II
ich hatte geschwanktwerde schwankenwerde geschwankt haben
du hattest geschwanktwirst schwankenwirst geschwankt haben
er/sie/es hatte geschwanktwird schwankenwird geschwankt haben
wir hatten geschwanktwerden schwankenwerden geschwankt haben
ihr hattet geschwanktwerdet schwankenwerdet geschwankt haben
sie/Sie hatten geschwanktwerden schwankenwerden geschwankt haben
Plusquamperfekt
What had happened before another moment in the past.
Futur I
Plans, promises and guesses about the future; often the Präsens is enough.
Futur II
What will be finished by a moment in the future, or a guess about the past.
Person Konjunktiv II
ich schwankte
du schwanktest
er/sie/es schwankte
wir schwankten
ihr schwanktet
sie/Sie schwankten
Konjunktiv II
Wishes, polite requests and what isn't real.

The same as the Präteritum, so German mostly says "würde" + infinitive instead: ich würde schwanken.

Person Imperativ
du schwank!
ihr schwankt!
Sie schwanken Sie!
Imperativ
Requests and instructions to du, ihr and Sie.

How the Word Is Built

schwank root en ending

-en
the ending of the infinitive, the form of a verb in the dictionary.

Word family

die Schwankungschwankend

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