kleinmachen
German, verb
kleinmachen is a German verb meaning “to put down; to humiliate; to belittle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does kleinmachen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to put down; to humiliate; to belittle
- 2
to make oneself small
- 3
to shred; to chop; to crush
- 4
to make change; to convert paper money into coins
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of kleinmachen
- macht klein present singular third-person
- machte klein past
- kleingemacht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- kleinmachend participle present
- kleinzumachen infinitive infinitive-zu
- mache klein first-person indicative present
- machen klein first-person indicative plural
- machst klein indicative present second-person
- machest klein second-person singular subjunctive
- machet klein plural second-person subjunctive
- machten klein first-person indicative plural
- machtest klein indicative preterite second-person
- machtet klein indicative plural preterite
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kleinmachen?
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kleinmachen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kleinmachen in German?
kleinmachen appears about once in every 26 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).