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rhyme
The similarity of sound between two or more words, usually at the end of lines of verse in poems or song lyrics.
Das Gedicht ist durch seinen einfachen Reim sehr eingängig.
The poem is very catchy because of its simple rhyme.
The noun 'der Reim' (rhyme) is closely connected to the verb 'reimen' (to rhyme). When two words rhyme, they form a rhyme.
Welches Wort reimt sich auf „Haus“?
What word rhymes with 'Haus'?
You can recognize the meaning from the context. If it is about poems, songs, or verses, it refers to the similarity of sound between words. In combination with the verb 'machen' (to make) and a person who does not understand something, it is the idiom.
In dem Lied gibt es keinen Reim.
There is no rhyme in the song.
When you want to say which words form a matching sound, you use the structure 'ein Reim auf' + accusative.
Er suchte einen passenden Reim auf das Wort „Sonne“.
He was looking for a suitable rhyme for the word 'Sonne'.
The idiom has a fixed structure: 'sich [dative] einen Reim auf etwas [accusative] machen' (to make sense of something). The dative pronoun (mir, dir, sich, etc.) shows who is trying to understand something.
Kannst du dir einen Reim darauf machen, warum er so wütend ist?
Can you make sense of why he is so angry?
meaning / sense
'der Sinn' and 'der Reim' are connected here only in a fixed expression. 'Sinn' means the meaning or logic of something. If something does not make sense, you do not understand it or it seems illogical. 'Sich einen Reim auf etwas machen' means that you try to understand something unclear or explain it to yourself. Learners may confuse the words because both have to do with understanding. But 'Reim' is used in this meaning almost only in the idiom. Otherwise, 'Reim' means the sound pattern in poems or songs.
Die Mitarbeiterin kann sich auf die plötzliche Änderung keinen Reim machen.
The employee cannot make sense of the sudden change.
Der Sinn der Nachricht ist mir noch nicht ganz klar.
The meaning of the message is still not entirely clear to me.