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- "Das ist sinnvoll."
48 Comments
Pfrdy
243
Yes. But please say "Das ergibt Sinn." "Das macht Sinn" has been colloquially adopted from English, but is not really correct. (In the German language you can say: "there is" a sense, it "follows" a sense or a sense can "be given". It means things don't make sense on their own - only YOU have to make sense of things.)
EdTyrone
821
From what I've gotten,
Sinn = Noun - sense, meaning, significance
sinnvoll = Adjective - sensible, meaningful, reasonable
BlazingFast
461
The correct answer provided is "This is useful", which doesn't seem to be equivalent to nutzlich.
Useful =/= sensible. Is this something to report?