beschweren

From Middle High German beswæren (“to afflict, to depress, to annoy”), from Old High German biswāren (“to depress, to burden”) (10th c.), from swāren (“heavy”) (8th c.) whence schwer. The reflexive sense developed later in the 14th century from "to burden oneself", "to fret" to "to complain about something worrisome, burdensome".^[1]

• IPA^(key): /bəˈʃveːʁən/

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• Hyphenation: be‧schwe‧ren
• Rhymes: -eːʀən

beschweren (weak, third-person singular present beschwert, past tense beschwerte, past participle beschwert, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive) to weight, to weight down
2. (reflexive) to complain

• Beschweren, Beschwerung, Beschwerde
• beschwerend, beschwert

• Briefbeschwerer

• “beschweren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “beschweren” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “beschweren” in Duden online
• “beschweren” in OpenThesaurus.de