weitermachen
German, verb
weitermachen is a German verb meaning “go on, keep going, continue to do something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Weitermachen is a different word: “gerund of weitermachen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “fortfahren etwas zu tun”.
What does weitermachen mean in English?
verb
- 1
go on, keep going, continue to do something
noun
- 1
neutergerund of weitermachen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. fortfahren etwas zu tun
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 weitermachen
- macht weiter present singular third-person
- machte weiter past
- weitergemacht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- weitermachend participle present
- weiterzumachen infinitive infinitive-zu
- mache weiter first-person indicative present
- machen weiter first-person indicative plural
- machst weiter indicative present second-person
- machest weiter second-person singular subjunctive
- machet weiter plural second-person subjunctive
- machten weiter first-person indicative plural
- machtest weiter indicative preterite second-person
- machtet weiter indicative plural preterite
- mach weiter! imperative singular
- mache weiter! imperative singular
- macht weiter! imperative plural
- weitergemacht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to weitermachen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is weitermachen in German?
weitermachen appears 9.1 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).