# Hoffnungen machen

Hoffnungen machen is a German verb meaning “get one's hopes up”. Forms: macht Hoffnungen, machte Hoffnungen, hat Hoffnungen gemacht.

## Forms

- Present (er/sie/es): macht Hoffnungen
- Simple past: machte Hoffnungen
- Perfect: hat Hoffnungen gemacht

## Meanings

1. _colloquial · reflexive · in the negative_ to get one's hopes up, to hold one's breath
   - Mach dir keine Hoffnungen. Der Plan wird eh nichts. — Don't get your hopes up. That plan isn't gonna work anyway.

## Conjugation

### Infinitiv & Partizip

- Partizip II: Hoffnungen gemacht
- Hilfsverb: haben

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