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machen

to do, to make

The 60th most frequent word in German, appearing about 1,548 times per million words.

Type
verb
Frequency rank
#60
Per million words
1,548

In a sentence

Was machst du?What are you doing?

Conjugation

Present tense of machen, plus the forms you need to talk about the past.

ich — Imache
du — youmachst
er/sie/es — he / she / itmacht
wir — wemachen
ihr — you (plural)macht
sie — theymachen
Perfecthat gemacht
Simple pastmachte

Forms its perfect tense with haben.

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