hermachen

German

Etymology

her +‎ machen

Verb

hermachen (weak, third-person singular present macht her, past tense machte her, past participle hergemacht, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial) to make a (specified) impression [with viel ‘good’ or wenig ‘so-so’ or nichts ‘bad’]
  2. (reflexive, figurative) to get busy with, to tackle, to deal with, to pounce on [with über (+ accusative) ‘an activity, etc.’]
  3. (reflexive) to attack, to lay into [with über (+ accusative) ‘someone’]

Conjugation

Further reading

  • hermachen” in Duden online
  • hermachen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache