Alright, I have another German-related question. I'm trying to keep up on it even after the class, although its a bit hard sometimes.
What is the real differnce between machen (when used in reference of "to do), and tun? Both say "To do" in the definition. The German teacher said that one is more informal than the other, but I wanted to know when one would be appropriate in which situation. Oh, and the book doesn't conjugate tun anywhere, so could I be helped with that as well.
Vielen Dank!
ich tu
Du tust
er/sie/es tut
wir tun
Ihr tut
sie tun
When to use them? Oh boy, ohboy. What a hard question.
Well when i was young I was told that that tuen is very slang-ish and bad form, but it seems to have grown out of it. I have the feeling that it's pretty much interchangeable. There's also the element that machen also has the secondary meaning of 'to create' which gives it a different feel.
In some cases tun seems more common, but which ones.. hm...
so tun alsob
to pretend (lit. to do) as if.
perhaps.
Can't think of any other examples right now.
maybe our new German members can help, they should be more up to date with the language