maachen
Luxembourgish edit
Alternative forms edit
- man (southern dialects)
Etymology edit
From Old High German mahhōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn. Cognate with German machen, Dutch maken, English make.
Umlauted present forms are found in most of Central Franconian. The vowel é (instead of *mächt) is probably related to the somewhat complicated developments before Old High German -h(h)- as in briechen or wiisst. Strong past forms are found in parts of Moselle Franconian and Alemannic. They were formed by analogy with strong class 7c (the ou being due to backformation from the subjunctive).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
maachen (third-person singular present mécht, preterite mouch, past participle gemaach or gemaacht or gemat, 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.
- to do
- Ech maache vill Sport, fir a Form ze bleiwen.
- I do lots of sport to keep in shape.
- to take (a photograph)
- to make, to equal
- to put, to place
- (reflexive) to act like, to pretend to be
Usage notes edit
- The preterite and subjunctive forms are obsolete in general Luxembourgish, but may still be used in some northern dialects.
Conjugation edit
| 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. | ||||