schwätzen

Etymology
From, , akin to 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to chat, talk, babble, prate
 * 2)  to speak, talk
 * 1)  to speak, talk
 * 1)  to speak, talk

Usage notes

 * In southwestern Germany (Baden-Württemberg, southern Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland) this is a neutral, albeit somewhat informal, word for speaking.
 * Elsewhere it is more restricted and roughly interchangeable with the variant . A very loose distinction may be identified insofar as usually means chatting among a group, while  also refers to one person who talks a lot. Both may have a negative tone, especially with situations where one ought to be silent (e.g. during a school lesson as above).
 * The derivatives, belong more to , while ,  belong more to . The latter two nouns are usually not negative.

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬,. For the past participle compare.

Verb

 * 1)  to speak
 * 2)  to speak (a language)
 * 1)  to speak (a language)