Schluss machen
Letters
14 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Schluss machen is aGermanphrase. It means: mit jemandem eine Liebesbeziehung beenden, sich von seinem Freund/seiner Freundin trennen Pronounced [ˈʃlʊs ˌmaxn̩].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Schluss machen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈʃlʊs ˌmaxn̩] |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The German entry for Schluss machen is 14 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃlʊs ˌmaxn̩]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Schluss machen 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 Schluss machen, spelled S-C-H-L-U-S-S- -M-A-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mit jemandem eine Liebesbeziehung beenden, sich von seinem Freund/seiner Freundin trennen
- 2seinem Leben ein Ende setzen, sich umbringen, Selbstmord begehen
- 3mit etwas etwas beenden
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