Preterite / Präteritum of the German verb schweigen

The Preterite / Präteritum tense conjugations for the German verb schweigen, along with their English translations.

Preterite / Präteritum This is more a literary tense, i.e. a tense used in writing, in everyday speech the Perfekt is used to refer to past actions.		Scored
ich schwieg	I kept quiet
du schwiegst	you kept quiet
er schwieg	he kept quiet
sie schwieg	she kept quiet
wir schwiegen	we kept quiet
ihr schwiegt	you kept quiet
sie schwiegen	they kept quiet

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