maachen
Luxembourgish
Alternative forms
- man (southern dialects)
Etymology
From Old High German mahhōn, from Proto-Germanic *makōną. Cognate with German machen, Dutch maken, English make.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaːχən/
- Rhymes: -aːχən
Verb
maachen (third-person singular present mécht, preterite mouch, past participle gemaach or gemat or gemaacht, past subjunctive méich, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to make
- De Betrib huet dëst Joer e gudde Profit gemaach.
- The business made a good profit this year.
- De Betrib huet dëst Joer e gudde Profit gemaach.
- to do
- Ech maache vill Sport, fir a Form ze bleiwen.
- I do lots of sport to keep in shape.
- Ech maache vill Sport, fir a Form ze bleiwen.
- to take (a photograph)
- to make, to equal
- to put, to place
- (reflexive) to act, to pretend
Conjugation
- The preterite and subjunctive forms given hereunder are obsolete in general Luxembourgish, but may still be used in some northern dialects.
| Irregular with past tense | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | maachen | |||
| participle | gemaach | |||
| auxiliary | hunn | |||
| present indicative | past indicative | conditional | imperative | |
| 1st singular | maachen | mouch | méich | — |
| 2nd singular | méchs | mouchs | méichs | maach |
| 3rd singular | mécht | mouch | méich | — |
| 1st plural | maachen | mouchen | méichen | — |
| 2nd plural | maacht | moucht | méicht | maacht |
| 3rd plural | maachen | mouchen | méichen | — |
| (n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel. | ||||
Derived terms
- doutmaachen
- opmaachen