Macher

Meaning

  1. (agent,form-of,masculine,strong) agent noun of machen; maker (male or of unspecified sex; one who makes; person or thing that makes or produces something)
  2. (broadly,masculine,strong) mover and shaker

Concepts

doer
maker
agent
big wheel
contriver
schemer
Synonyms

Hersteller
Fabrikant

Handelnde

Handelnder

Mitwirkender

Täter

tatsächlicher Machthaber

Mitwirkende

Tuender

Macherin
Arbeiter

Tatmensch

Frequency

25k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmaxəʁ/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German
macher
Inherited from Old High German
mahhāri
Cognate with Dutch
Dutch
maker
Cognate with English
English
maker
Cognate with Yiddish
מאַכער
In summary

From Middle High German macher, from Old High German mahhāri. By surface analysis, machen (“to make”) + -er (agent suffix). Cognates include Dutch maker, English maker and, via Yiddish מאַכער (makher), English macher.

New
machen

  1. (transitive,weak) to make, to produce, to create (an object, arrangement, situation, etc.)
  2. (transitive,weak) to make, prepare (food, drinks, etc.)
  3. (informal,transitive,weak) to do, perform, carry out (an action) (to execute; to put into operation)
  4. (transitive,weak) to do (a noun); indicates an activity associated with a noun
  5. (transitive,weak) to go (a specified sound) (to make the sound)
  6. (transitive,weak) to make, to cause
  7. (transitive,weak) to cause [with dative ‘for/in someone’ and accusative abstract noun ‘fear, pain, difficulty, happiness, etc.’] (often translated idiomatically with English make followed by an adjective)
  8. (transitive,weak) to make (to cause to be)
  9. (transitive,weak) to make (to transform) [with accusative ‘something’ and aus (+ dative) ‘from something else’] (often translated idiomatically with English turn (something into something else))
  10. (transitive,weak) to make (to have as a feature) (often not translated literally)
  11. (colloquial,informal,transitive,weak) to come to, to total, to cost (to require the payment of)
  12. (transitive,weak) to make, to be (the result of a calculation)
  13. (colloquial,informal,transitive,weak) to make (to earn, gain wages, profit, etc.)
  14. (transitive,weak) to be, to play (to act as the indicated role, especially in a performance)
  15. (colloquial,transitive,weak) to signify, to mean [with nichts, viel, etc.] (translated idiomatically as English (not) matter)
  16. (informal,intransitive,weak) to make, to make oneself out to be, to act, to play (to behave so as to give an appearance of being; to act as if one were (something, or a certain way))
  17. (euphemistic,informal,intransitive,weak) to do one's business, do number two or number one, go (to defecate or urinate)
  18. (reflexive,weak) to do, to fare
  19. (reflexive,weak) to look (to have an appearance of being)
  20. (colloquial,dative,reflexive,weak) to get cracking (on/with), to get a move on (it), to get down (to)
  21. (imperative,weak) come on, let's go

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