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Luxembourgish

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Alternative forms

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  • man (southern dialects)

Etymology

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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

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Verb

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maachen (third-person singular present mécht, preterite mouch, past participle gemaach or gemaacht or gemat, past subjunctive méich, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to make
    De Betrib huet dëst Joer e gudde Profit gemaach.
    The business made a good profit this year.
  2. to do
    Ech maache vill Sport, fir a Form ze bleiwen.
    I do lots of sport to keep in shape.
  3. to take (a photograph)
  4. to make, to equal
  5. to put, to place
  6. (reflexive) to act like, to pretend to be

Usage notes

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  • The preterite and subjunctive forms are obsolete in general Luxembourgish, but may still be used in some northern dialects.

Conjugation

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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

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