Maschine
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German
Etymology
Borrowed from French machine (“machine”), from Latin māchina.
Pronunciation
Noun
Maschine f (genitive Maschine, plural Maschinen)
- machine
- 1995, Christian Kracht, “Acht”, in Faserland, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, published 2020, →ISBN:
- Es ist so, als habe sich das ganze riesengroße Land einfach verflüchtigt, und obwohl die Menschen hier auch noch Deutsch sprechen und auf den Schildern überall deutsche Sätze stehen, scheint es mir so, als ob Deutschland nur noch eine Ahnung wäre, eine große Maschine jenseits der Grenze, eine Maschine, die sich bewegt und Dinge herstellt, die von niemandem beachtet werden.
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- engine
- (slightly informal) airplane
- (colloquial) motorcycle
- Synonym: Motorrad
Usage notes
- The word is not usual for vending machines and similar machines into which money is inserted (like a pinball machine or the like). These are called Automaten.
Declension
Declension of Maschine
Derived terms
- Aushebemaschine f (“excavator”)
- Bohrmaschine f (“drill”)
- Datenverarbeitungsmaschine f
- Doppelschleifmaschine f (“bench grinder”)
- Fräsmaschine f (“milling machine”)
- Kaffeemaschine f (“coffee maker”)
- Küchenmaschine f (“food processor”)
- Mähmaschine f (“mower”)
- Maschinenraum f (“engine room”)
- Pressmaschine f (“press tool”)
- Propagandamaschine
- Rührmaschine f
- Sattelzugmaschine
- Schreibmaschine f (“typewriter”)
- Spülmaschine f (“dishwasher”)
- Suchmaschine f (“search engine”)
- Trockenmaschine f (“dryer”)
- Waschmaschine f (“washing machine”)
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Belarusian: машына (mašyna)
- → Bulgarian: машина (mašina)
- → Czech: mašina
- → Estonian: masin
- → Hungarian: masina
- → Latvian: mašīna
- → Lithuanian: mašina
- → Lower Sorbian: mašina
- → Kashubian: maszina
- → Macedonian: машина (mašina)
- → Polish: maszyna
- → Romanian: mașină (also directly from French)
- → Russian: машина (mašina) (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian: машина / mašina
- → Slovak: mašina
- → Slovene: mašina
- → Ukrainian: машина (mašyna)
- → Yiddish: מאַשין (mashin)
Further reading
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Noun
Maschine f