weismachen
German, verb
weismachen is spelled W-E-I-S-M-A-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 52,012th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Weismachen is a German verb meaning “[with dative] make believe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Weismachen is a different word: “gerund of weismachen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemandem etwas Unwahres glaubhaft machen”.
What does weismachen mean in English?
verb
- 1
[with dative] make believe
Das machst du mir nicht weis!
noun
- 1
neutergerund of weismachen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemandem etwas Unwahres glaubhaft machen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of weismachen
- macht weis present singular third-person
- machte weis past
- weisgemacht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- weismachend participle present
- weiszumachen infinitive infinitive-zu
- mache weis first-person indicative present
- machen weis first-person indicative plural
- machst weis indicative present second-person
- machest weis second-person singular subjunctive
- machet weis plural second-person subjunctive
- machten weis first-person indicative plural
- machtest weis indicative preterite second-person
- machtet weis indicative plural preterite
- mach weis! imperative singular
- mache weis! imperative singular
- macht weis! imperative plural
- weisgemacht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is weismachen in German?
weismachen appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).