Verb

schwenken

to pan (the camera)

C1 rank #10,819

Meanings

Verb

to pan (the camera)
to wave, to brandish (a long item, e.g. a flag or sword)
to swivel (a lamp etc.)
to pan (a camera)
to flip food in a pan

In a sentence

Ich schwenke die Kamera langsam von links nach rechts.

I pan the camera slowly from left to right.

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Forms

schwenken · schwenkt · schwenkte · hat geschwenkt (+ Akkusativ)

schwenken is C1 German — advanced vocabulary, ranked #10,819 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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