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单词 Sinn machen
释义

Sinn machen

German

Etymology

Recorded use by intellectuals since the 1970s and earlier rare use by Goethe, Lessing, Luther, and others, including (Grimmsches Wörterbuch) "Petrus der maister Lampardus, der die sentencias machet, das ist das puch von hochen synnen zu teutsch." From Medieval Latin (scholasticism) "sententiam facere".[1]

Increasingly widespread use since the 1970s probably due to influence of the English expression make sense. So the German expression is probably an interesting example of a rare case of a combination of revived or resurrected old use and of loan translation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zɪn ˈmaxn̩/, /zɪn ˈmaxən/

Verb

Sinn machen (weak, third-person singular present macht Sinn, past tense machte Sinn, past participle Sinn gemacht, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive, colloquial) to make sense
    Synonyms: Sinn haben, Sinn ergeben, sinnvoll sein

Usage notes

This expression is widely erroneously[1] criticized and denounced as "incorrect German" and as a blatant anglicism by amateur language pundits,[2] but it is now widely used, and it has been listed in the Duden as a colloquialism for a while already.[3]

In fact, formal use is recorded sìnce the 1970s, and there is earlier rare use by Goethe, Lessing, Luther, and others.[1] The increasingly widespread use since the 1970s is probably due to influence of the English expression make sense. So the German expression is probably an interesting example of a rare case of a combination of revived or resurrected old use and of loan translation.

Conjugation

References

  1. Language blog of the University of Bremen (in German)
  2. Bastian Sick (2003-08-20), “Stop making sense!”, in Spiegel (in German): “In ein paar Jahren steht "macht Sinn" vermutlich im Duden-Band 9 ("Richtiges und gutes Deutsch"), dann haben es die Freunde falscher Anglizismen mal wieder geschafft.”
  3. Sinn machen” in Duden online
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