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by aleph_minus_one 1022 days ago
> I have no idea what “kaput” means…

"kaputt" is a rather colloquial German word for "broken".

My stance as a native German speaker: don't use it in written German, and avoid it in spoken German, too, since you will appear somewhat uneducated (remark: in spoken German, you typically use a more formal language register than in spoken English).