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hermachen

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German

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Etymology

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her +‎ machen

Verb

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hermachen (weak, third-person singular present macht her, past tense machte her, past participle hergemacht, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial) to make a (specified) impression [with viel ‘good’ or wenig ‘so-so’ or nichts ‘bad’]
  2. (reflexive, figurative) to get busy with, to tackle, to deal with, to pounce on [with über (+ accusative) ‘an activity, etc.’]
  3. (reflexive) to attack, to lay into [with über (+ accusative) ‘someone’]

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • hermachen” in Duden online
  • hermachen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache