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Words of New Poems · 232 headwords

Each word with its meanings, its forms, and the lines it stands in.

Waage

scale once

Wage

Wage is an older/poetic spelling of Waage ("scale, balance").

wach

awake; waking; wakeful 8 times

wach, wache, wachen, wachem

adverb; adjective, dative, neuter, singular; adjective, accusative, neuter, singular

wachen

watched; lies awake; keeps watch 4 times

wacht, gewacht, wache

verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, participle; verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular

wachsen

grew; grow; growing 12 times

wuchs, wachsend, wächst, wachsen–, wuchsen, wachsen, Wachsenden

verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, infinitive; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular

Wade

calves once

Waden

Fronted genitive plural: 'der Waden ... Schatten' = 'the shadow of the calves'.

wagen

dared; dare; daring 4 times

wagen, wagte, wagend, gewagt

verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; adverb

Wagen

carriage; wagons; carriage's 4 times

Wagen, Wagens

noun, dative, masculine, plural; noun, genitive, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, singular

wahr

true once

wahr

Idiom 'für wahr halten' = 'to hold as true, believe.'

Wald

forest; forests; wood 6 times

Wald, Wälder

noun, dative, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, singular; noun, nominative, masculine, plural

Wand

wall; walls; walls' 4 times

Wand, Wände

noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, nominative, feminine, plural; noun, genitive, feminine, plural

Wandelstern

wandering stars once

Wandelsterne

'Wandelstern' (wandering star) is the older German term for a planet.

warm

warm; warm ones; warmth 10 times

warm, warmes, Warme, warmen, warme

adjective, predicate; adjective, nominative, plural; adverb

Substantivized adjectives (plural), further describing the dolphins as a group.

warten

wait; waiting; waits 18 times

wartet, warten, wartend, wartest, wartete, Warten, Wartend

verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural; verb, present participle

warum

why; Why 10 times

warum, Warum, warum–

adverb; subordinating conjunction; interrogative adverb

was

what; which; that 87 times

was, Was

pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular; pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular; pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular, relative

'was...für ein' (split across the line) is an idiom meaning 'what kind of/what a'.

waschen

washed; washing 4 times

wusch, wuschen, waschend

verb, past, indicative, first-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural

Wasser

water; waters 11 times

Wasser, Wassern

noun, nominative, neuter, singular; noun, dative, neuter, singular; noun, nominative, neuter, plural

Watt

flats once

Watt

Watt: the tidal mudflats of the North Sea coast.

wählen

choose 4 times

wählt, wähltest, wählen

verb, present, indicative, second-person, plural; verb, past, indicative, second-person, singular; verb, infinitive

wälzen

rolled; writhed; heaves 5 times

wälzte, wälzt, wälzten

verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural

Wärme

warmth 3 times

Wärme

noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, genitive, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular

Wechseln

flickering once

Wechseln

'Wechseln' is the nominalized infinitive ('the changing/flickering'), used here as a noun.

Weg

path; paths; way 18 times

Weges, Weg, Wege, Wegen

noun, genitive, masculine, singular; noun, dative, masculine, plural; noun, accusative, masculine, singular

weh

aching; pain; aches 4 times

wehen, weh

adverb; adjective, dative, masculine, singular; adjective, dative, feminine, singular

'wehen' here is the inflected adjective 'weh' (aching, sore), not the verb 'wehen' (to blow).

wehen

drifted; breathes; streamed 5 times

wehte, weht, wehen

verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, infinitive

Wehn

blowing; wind 3 times

Wehn

noun, nominative, neuter, singular; noun, accusative, neuter, singular

weich

soft 7 times

weiche, weich, weichen

adjective, nominative, masculine, singular; adjective, predicate; adjective, nominative, feminine, singular

Weile

while 4 times

Weile

Accusative of duration ('for a little while'), not the grammatical object.

weisen

pointed; waves; show 5 times

wies, weist, weisen

verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural

weit

far; far off; wide 23 times

weit, weiten, weite, Weit, weit–

adverb; adjective, genitive, feminine, singular; adjective, dative, masculine, plural

Weite

expanse; distances; distance 10 times

Weite, Weiten

noun, accusative, feminine, singular; noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, nominative, feminine, plural

weitergehen

go on; walk on; goes further 3 times

weitergehn, weitergeht

verb, infinitive; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular

weiterschwingen

vibrates on once

weiterschwingt

Separable verb 'weiterschwingen' (to go on vibrating).

weiterwinkend

going-on-waving thing once

Weiterwinkendes–

A substantivized present participle (from weiterwinken, "to go on waving") coined for this poem — literally "a still-waving thing."

weitverrollt

rolled far apart once

weitverrollte,–

Surface token carries the source's trailing comma and dash; the word itself is weitverrollt, 'rolled far apart.'

weiß

white; whiter; in white 17 times

weiß, weißer, weiße, weißes, Weiße, weißen

adjective, nominative, masculine, singular; adjective, nominative, neuter, singular; adjective, predicative

"weiß" here is the adjective "white," coordinated with "klein" — not the verb "wissen" (to know), which has the identical form.

Weiß

white 3 times

Weiß

noun, dative, neuter, singular; noun, nominative, neuter, singular

welcher

which; who; what 48 times

welcher, welche, welches, welchem, welchen, Welchen, Welcher, Welche

pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular; pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular; pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular

Neuter relative pronoun — refers back to das Kostüm ('the costume'), not der Schmerz ('the grief'), despite the intervening genitive.

Welkende

withering one once

Welkenden

Substantivized adjective referring to the aging King David.

Welle

waves; wave 5 times

Wellen, Welle

noun, dative, feminine, plural; noun, accusative, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, singular

Welt

world; worlds 17 times

Welt, Welten

noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, plural

wenden

turned; turn; turns 7 times

wandte, wenden, wendet

verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, infinitive; verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural

Infinitive parallel to 'schrecken' (s2-l1) — an implied modal ('with what word he might turn them') is elided.

wer

who; Who; whoever 17 times

Wer, wer, Wen, was, wen

pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular; pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular; pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular

werden

will; grew; was 77 times

wird, wurde, werden, würde, wurden, ward, wirst, geworden and 1 more

auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; auxiliary verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular

'Ward' is an archaic poetic form of 'wurde' (past tense of werden).

werden / wollen

were turned–do you want once

wurden?–Willst

The source text runs 'wurden' and 'Willst' together with no space around the dash, so the tokenizer fused two separate words into one token; this entry stands for both.

werfen

flung; cast; throws 14 times

warf, wirft, warfen, werfend, werfen, warfet, geworfen

verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural

Widerschein

counter-sheen; reflected glow; reflection 4 times

Widerschein, Widerscheinen

noun, nominative, masculine, singular; noun, dative, masculine, singular; noun, dative, masculine, plural

Widerstand

resistance 4 times

Widerstand, Widerstand–

noun, dative, masculine, singular; noun, accusative, masculine, singular

wie

like; as; as if 428 times

wie, Wie

preposition; subordinating conjunction; conjunction

'Und wie' is an idiom meaning 'and how!' (emphatic agreement), pivoting into the description that follows.

wieder

again; and again; once more 51 times

wieder

"Hin und wieder" is the standard fixed idiom for "now and then / occasionally" — there is no verb splitting it here (hin, und, wieder are consecutive; the verb "irrt" follows the whole phrase). This is not the idiom "hin und her" ("back and forth"), so a spatial "back and forth" reading is not supported by the grammar; the gaze wanders now and then, i.e. intermittently.

wiederkennen

still recognizes once

wiederkennt

Poetic/archaic form of 'wiedererkennen' (to recognize again).

wiederkommen

returned again—and once

wiederkamen–und

This token fuses 'wiederkamen' (returned again) with the following 'und' (and) — a spacing artifact in the source text, not a single word.

Wiese

meadows; meadow 3 times

Wiesen, Wiese

noun, nominative, feminine, plural; noun, dative, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, singular

wild

wild; wildly 3 times

wild, wilde

adverb; adjective, nominative, feminine, singular

Wild

deer once

Wild

'Wild' literally means 'game' (a wild animal); the translation specifies 'deer.'

Wille

will; a will 6 times

Willen, Wille, Willens

noun, nominative, masculine, singular; noun, accusative, masculine, singular; noun, dative, masculine, singular

'Wille' is a weak noun (normally 'Willen' only in oblique cases); used here as the poetic subject.

willen

sake twice

willen

postposition; preposition (postposition pairing with um)

um … willen is a fixed circumposition meaning 'for the sake of'; the genitive noun sits between um and willen.

willig

willing; willingly 5 times

willig

adverb; adjective; adjective, predicate

Wind

wind 11 times

Wind

noun, nominative, masculine, singular; noun, accusative, masculine, singular

winken

beckoning; might wave; beckons 3 times

winkend, winkte, winkt

verb, participle; verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular

wir

we; us; We 66 times

wir, uns, Wir, wirs

pronoun, nominative, plural; pronoun, dative, plural; pronoun, accusative, plural

wirs is a poetic contraction of wir ('we') and the clitic es ('it'); the folded-in es is the object of verständen, matching 'it' in the translation.

wirklich

real; really; something real 11 times

wirklich, wirklicher, Wirklich, Wirkliches, Wirklichen

adverb; adjective, nominative, masculine, singular; adjective, predicate, uninflected

Wirklichkeit

reality; of reality; realities 6 times

Wirklichkeit, Wirklichkeiten

noun, dative, feminine, singular; noun, genitive, feminine, singular; noun, genitive, feminine, plural

wirr

tangled; cluttered 4 times

wirren, wirres, wirre

adjective, nominative, neuter, singular; adjective, dative, neuter, singular; adjective, accusative, masculine, singular

wissen

knew; know; knows 55 times

weiß, wußte, wissen, wußten, wissend, weißt, Wissen, wüßte and 3 more

verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural

From wissen ("to know"), not weiß/weißen ("white/whitewash") — a common false friend.

wo

where; Where 19 times

wo, Wo

subordinating conjunction; adverb; interrogative adverb

Wogenscham

wave-sex once

Wogenscham

Rilke's coinage: Woge (wave) + Scham (pudendum) — a bold erotic image.

wohin

where; where to; toward which 4 times

wohin

adverb; subordinating conjunction

wohnen

dwell; might dwell; dwelt 5 times

wohnen, wohne, wohnte, Wohnen

verb, infinitive; verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular

Wohner

dwellers once

Wohner

Wohner is a poetic shortening of Bewohner ('inhabitant, dweller').

Wolke

clouds; clouds' 3 times

Wolken

noun, dative, feminine, plural; noun, genitive, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, plural

wollen

wanted; want; wills 33 times

will, wollte, wollten, wollen, Willst, Will, wollt, willst and 1 more

auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; auxiliary verb, present, indicative, first-person, singular

Wort

words; word 13 times

Worte, Wort, Worten

noun, nominative, neuter, plural; noun, accusative, neuter, plural; noun, dative, neuter, singular

wölben

arched; bulges; vaults 3 times

wölbt, wölbte

verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular; verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular

Wölbung

vault 4 times

Wölbung

noun, genitive, feminine, singular; noun, accusative, feminine, singular

wund

raw; wounded; wound 3 times

wund, wunde, Wunde

adjective, predicate; adjective, nominative, neuter, plural; adjective used as noun, accusative, neuter, singular

'das Wunde' is a substantivized adjective (the sore/raw place), not the ordinary noun 'die Wunde' — hence the neuter article.

Wunde

wounds; a wound 3 times

Wunden, Wunde

noun, accusative, feminine, plural; noun, nominative, feminine, singular; noun, dative, feminine, plural

wunderbar

more wondrously; wondrous; wondrous ones 3 times

wunderbarer, wunderbare, Wunderbare

adverb; adjective, accusative, feminine, singular; adjective (substantivized), accusative, plural

Substantivized adjective ('wondrous things/nights'), not a proper name.

wunderlich

strangely; strange 4 times

wunderlich, wunderliches

adverb; adjective, nominative, neuter, singular

Seen once or twice

Wachsen

growth once

wachslichtbleich

candle-pale woman once

Wachstum

growth's once

Waffenrock

soldier's coat once

Waffenträger

armor-bearers once

wagrecht

horizontal once

Wahl

choice twice

Wahnsinnige

madmen once

Waise

orphans once

Waldbad

forest pool once

Waldsee

forest lake once

Waldskelett

forest skeletons once

wallend

surging once

Wandel

shifting once

wandeln

transformed once

Wandervogel

migrant once

Wange

cheeks once

Wann

when once

Wappen

coat of arms once

Wappenhalter

heraldic bearer once

Wartende

waiting woman once

Wartender

waiting one once

Wartezimmer

waiting room once

Warum

why once

Waschender

washers once

Wasserschale

water-basin once

Wasserträgerin

water-carrier once

Wächter

guard once

Wärter

keepers' once

weben

weave once

wechseln

shifts once

wechselvoll

shifting once

wecken

wakes; woken twice

weg

away once

wegen

of once

weggeben

giving away once

weggesenkt

turned downward and away once

weggeworfen

cast away once

wegnehmen

taken away once

wegreißen

torn away once

wegschenken

gives away once

wegsenken

sank away once

wegwerfen

flinging once

wegzerren

wrench away once

Weh

harm; hurt twice

Wehmut

melancholy once

wehmütig

wistfully once

Wehr

defense once

wehren

resists once

wehrlos

defenseless once

wehtun

ached once

Weib

woman once

Weiche

soft down once

weichen

drew back once

weichlich

soft once

Weideplatz

pastures once

weigern

refuse once

Weiher

pools twice

Weihgeschenk

votive gift once

weilen

linger; stays twice

weilend

lingering once

Wein

wine twice

Weinen

weeping once

weinen

weeping; weeps twice

weinend

weeping once

Weiner

weeper once

Weise

manner; way twice

weise

wise man once

weitergeben

pass onward once

Weitergehen

onward going once

Weitergehn

walking-onward once

weitergleiten

slid further once

weiterleben

went on living once

weiterlocken

lured onward once

weiterringen

go on wrestling once

weitersprechen

goes on speaking once

weitertragen

bore onward; carried onward twice

weiterwachsen

grows on once

weitgeschleudert

far-flung once

weithin

far and wide once

Weizen

wheat once

Weiße

whiteness once

weiße

white one once

welk

more withered; withered twice

welken

wilt once

welkend

withering once

wellend

rippling once

Weltall

universe once

Wenden

turning once

Wendung

bend; turning twice

werben

woos once

Werferin

flinging woman once

Werk

work once

Werktag

workday once

wertlos

worthless once

Wesen

being; beings twice

wesenlos

bodiless once

weshalb

why once

wider

against twice

widerbilden

imprints itself once

Widersinn

contradiction once

widerstehen

resists once

Wie

how once

wiederbringen

bring back; could bring back twice

wiedergeben

giving back; give back twice

wiederherrollen

rolled back again once

wiederhören

hear again once

wiederkehren

returning once

Wiedersehn

seeing-again once

wiederum

once again once

wiegen

swaying; sway twice

wiegend

cradling once

Wiesenpfad

meadow-path once

wieviel

how much once

willkürlich

arbitrarily once

winden

writhed once

Windhund

greyhound once

windig

windy once

Wink

hint; beckoning twice

Winken

wave once

Winter

winters once

Wirbel

whirlpool's; eddies twice

Wirrn

confusion once

Wirrnis

turmoil once

Wissen

knowledge once

Wissend

knowing ones once

wissend

knowing once

Wissende

the knowing one once

Woche

weeks once

Woge

wave once

wogen

surged; surge twice

wogend

surging once

woher

where once

wohltun

of doing good once

Wolkenrand

cloud-edges once

wolkig

cloudy once

Wollen

willing once

wundertätig

miracle-working once

Wurf

throw once

Wurm

worms once

Wurzel

roots; root twice

Wut

rage once

wünschen

wish; wished twice

Würde

dignities; dignity twice

Wüste

desert once

Wüten

raging once

wütend

furiously once

The particulars

The words
Every word of the text, parsed: its headword, its form and its meaning in the line. Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource.
Translation
Public-domain German (Rilke, d. 1926). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
Data
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