Machen feels more immediate ... tun a little more future orientated
But it's hard to describe, given the German penchant for using the present tense for all tenses - Ich habe es gemacht, ich mache es jetzt, ich mache es morgen
But, if you know what I mean, "Was machen wir also?" has a sort of immediacy about it, whereas "Was tun wir also?" has a sense of the long-term about it
But I'm only really quibbling about niceties here and it's not really a significant difference
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Date: 2004-05-31 09:44 am (UTC)But it's hard to describe, given the German penchant for using the present tense for all tenses - Ich habe es gemacht, ich mache es jetzt, ich mache es morgen
But, if you know what I mean, "Was machen wir also?" has a sort of immediacy about it, whereas "Was tun wir also?" has a sense of the long-term about it
But I'm only really quibbling about niceties here and it's not really a significant difference