kaputtmachen

German

Etymology

From kaputt + machen.

Pronunciation
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Verb

kaputtmachen (weak, third-person singular present macht kaputt, past tense machte kaputt, past participle kaputtgemacht, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial) to break
    • 1971, “Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht”, in Warum geht es mir so dreckig?, performed by Ton Steine Scherben:
      Autos kaufen, Häuser kaufen, Möbel kaufen, Reisen kaufen / Wofür? / Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht
      Buy cars, buy houses, buy furniture, buy trips / for what? / break what breaks you
  2. (colloquial) to spoil, ruin, damage, destroy

Conjugation

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