wettmachen
German, verb
wettmachen is spelled W-E-T-T-M-A-C-H-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Wettmachen is a German verb meaning “to make up for, to make good” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Wettmachen is a different word: “gerund of wettmachen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas ungeschehen machen, etwas ausgleichen”.
What does wettmachen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to make up for, to make good
Den Verlust hat er innerhalb weniger Tage wettgemacht.
noun
- 1
neutergerund of wettmachen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas ungeschehen machen, etwas ausgleichen
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 wettmachen
- macht wett present singular third-person
- machte wett past
- wettgemacht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- wettmachend participle present
- wettzumachen infinitive infinitive-zu
- mache wett first-person indicative present
- machen wett first-person indicative plural
- machst wett indicative present second-person
- machest wett second-person singular subjunctive
- machet wett plural second-person subjunctive
- machten wett first-person indicative plural
- machtest wett indicative preterite second-person
- machtet wett indicative plural preterite
- mach wett! imperative singular
- mache wett! imperative singular
- macht wett! imperative plural
- wettgemacht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is wettmachen in German?
wettmachen appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).