Unfug machen / treiben / anstellen

to engage in playful, silly, or mildly disruptive behavior

Türkçe: yaramazlık yapmak

Noun

Unfug m.

Verb

anstellen

Topic

Gesellschaft und Leben

In a sentence

Die Kinder treiben im Park lauten Unfug und ärgern die Spaziergänger.

How it is used

Means to engage in playful, silly, or mildly disruptive behavior. Colloquial register. Use when scolding children or joking about harmless pranks. Not for serious wrongdoing.

Other collocations built on anstellen

• Beobachtungen anstellento make observations
• Berechnungen anstellento perform calculations
• (einen) Blödsinn anstellento do nonsense or fool around
• Mutmaßungen anstellento make assumptions without full facts
• Nachforschungen anstellento carry out research or inquiries
• Recherchen anstellen über+Akk.to conduct research
• Spekulationen anstellento engage in speculation/make conjectures
• Überlegungen anstellento make considerations/deliberate