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festmachen

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German

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Etymology

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    fest- +‎ machen

    Pronunciation

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    • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

    Verb

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    festmachen (weak, third-person singular present macht fest, past tense machte fest, past participle festgemacht, auxiliary haben)

    1. (transitive) to affix, to fasten (to firmly attach something by way of rope, tacks, or other mechanisms)
      • 1952, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Das Dicke Kind:
        Es saß am Ufer und versuchte, ein Bein über den andere zu legen, um die Schlittschuhe festzumachen.
        She sat on the shore and tried to cross one leg over the other in order to fasten her ice skates.
    2. (transitive, nautical) to moor (to secure a water vessel in place)
    3. (intransitive, nautical) to moor, to stop (to be secured in place, of water vessels)
    4. (transitive) to set, to agree (on) (a meeting, etc.)
      Synonyms: ausmachen, festlegen
      Wir haben einen Treffpunkt festgemacht.We've set a meeting point.
    5. (transitive) to ascribe, to attribute [with an (+ dative) ‘to something’]
      Synonym: zurückführen
      Diese Unterschiede lassen sich am Alter der Probanden festmachen.
      These differences can be attributed to the ages of the subjects.
    6. (transitive) to exemplify, to demonstrate [with an (+ dative) ‘by citing something’]
      Der Erfolg lässt sich an steigenden Verkaufszahlen festmachen.
      The success is demonstrated by rising sales numbers.

    Conjugation

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    Further reading

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    • festmachen” in Duden online
    • festmachen”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)