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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "schon-3" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "schon-3" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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Hello,
This might not be the right spot for this question, but here we go…
Can you explain phrases like “Schönes machen” and “Schönes haben,” please? Does “Schönes” make it feel nicer/more casual/polite? Can it be sarcastic?
(btw, some of the examples above are schon examples, rather than schön…I know it was probably the algorithm’s fault)
The phrases are actually most likely
– “etwas Schönes machen/haben”
And they mean “doing/having something nice”
“Schönes” plays the role of a noun here.
Does that help?
(and yes, for the words where I don’t have hand written dedicated examples, I’m doing a quick search from the example pool, but it’s a loose matching so that’s why it doesn’t always work. I’ll switch that to GPT generated examples soon)
Ok, sounds good. I heard “Schönes machen” and it made me think it made me think it might be roughly equivalent to, “What’s good?” in English. A very slangy way of saying, “What are you doing/What’s up?”
But it sounds like it might just be a literal translation! Thank you!
There is
– Was machst du Schönes?
Which is a colloquial option for “What are you up to?”
But “Schönes machen” alone doesn’t exist.