machten zu
Letters
10 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
machten zu is aGermanverb. It means: 1. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zumachen Pronounced [ˌmaxtn̩ ˈt͡suː].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machten zu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˌmaxtn̩ ˈt͡suː] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for machten zu is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌmaxtn̩ ˈt͡suː]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for machten zu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is machten zu, spelled M-A-C-H-T-E-N- -Z-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 11. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zumachen
- 21. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zumachen
- 33. Person Plural Indikativ Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zumachen
- 43. Person Plural Konjunktiv II Präteritum Aktiv der Hauptsatzkonjugation des Verbs zumachen
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