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was machen

what are … doing?

→ was
phrase Very common #497
what are … doing? The verb changes with the subject: was machst du?, was macht sie?, was machen Sie?
GE: Was machen wir jetzt?
EN: What are we doing now?

Aber was machen sie im vierten Stock?

But what are they doing on the fourth floor?

Was machen deine Kopfschmerzen?

How are your headaches?

Was machen die Leute da?

What are people doing there?

Was machen die anderen Männer gerade?

What are the other men doing right now?

Was machen diese Leute?

What are these people doing?

Was machen sie?

What are they doing?

— Indiana Jones und der letzte Kreuzzug (1989)

Was machen Tom und Maria hier?

What are Tom and Maria doing here?

Was machen die Freunde?

What are the friends doing?

— Gefahr und Begierde (2007)

Was machen die Russen mit den deutschen Gefangenen?

What are the Russians doing with the German prisoners?

— Nürnberg (2025)

Was machen sie denn?

What are they doing?

— Pirates of the Caribbean - Fluch der Karibik 2 (2006)

Und was machen die Journalisten?

And what are the journalists doing?

— Ikiru - Einmal wirklich leben (1952)

Was machen all die anderen auf dem Feld?

What are all the others doing on the field?

— Lagaan - Es war einmal in Indien (2001)

Xiao Wang, was machen die Leute dort?

Xiao Wang, what are the people doing there?

— Still Life (2006)

Was machen die Kleinen?

What are the little ones doing?

— Die letzten Glühwürmchen (1988)

Was machen diese Arschlöcher beim Sicherheitsdienst da überhaupt?

What are those assholes in security actually doing there?

— A Taxi Driver (2017)

Was machen sie mit ihm?

What do they do with him?

— Matrix (1999)

Was machen wohl die armen Leute?

What do the poor people do?

— American Gangster (2007)

Was machen die Beine?

How are your legs?

— Montags in der Sonne (2002)

Was machen die Männer?

What are the men doing?

Was machen die anderen heute Abend?

What are the others doing tonight?

Was machen diese beiden?

What are these two doing?

— Ermittlungen gegen einen über jeden Verdacht erhabenen Bürger (1970)

Was machen unsere Figuren ohne alte Mühle?

What will our characters do without the old mill?

— State and Main (2000)

Was machen Tom und Maria?

What are Tom and Maria doing?

Was machen die Kinder?

What are the children doing?

Was machen die Schlüssel?

What are the keys doing?

— Taxi (1998)

Was machen sie hier draußen?

What are they doing out here?

Und was machen sie?

And what are they doing?

— GoodFellas (1990)