hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum

/[han sʊm bʊir mɪdlʊn ʏlvar mɔa ʊila vi taimʊn]/ phrase

The verdict

“hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
45
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Wer unter Wölfen lebt, muss mit ihnen heulen (mit den Wölfen heulen)

Key facts for hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum
PropertyValue
Headwordhann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[han sʊm bʊir mɪdlʊn ʏlvar mɔa ʊila vi taimʊn]
Letters45
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum” sits in German frequency

hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum is 45 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [han sʊm bʊir mɪdlʊn ʏlvar mɔa ʊila vi taimʊn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Wer unter Wölfen lebt, muss mit ihnen heulen (mit den Wölfen heulen)".

No misspelling variants are generated for hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum, spelled H-A-N-N-,- -S-U-M- -B-Ý-R- -M-I-L-L-U-M- -Ú-L-V-A-R-,- -M-Á- -Ý-L-A- -V-I-Ð- -T-E-I-M-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Wer unter Wölfen lebt, muss mit ihnen heulen (mit den Wölfen heulen)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum"?
"hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum" is spelled H-A-N-N-,- -S-U-M- -B-Ý-R- -M-I-L-L-U-M- -Ú-L-V-A-R-,- -M-Á- -Ý-L-A- -V-I-Ð- -T-E-I-M-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is [han sʊm bʊir mɪdlʊn ʏlvar mɔa ʊila vi taimʊn].
What does "hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum" mean?
As a phrase, "hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum" means: Wer unter Wölfen lebt, muss mit ihnen heulen (mit den Wölfen heulen)
How do you pronounce "hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum" is [han sʊm bʊir mɪdlʊn ʏlvar mɔa ʊila vi taimʊn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “hann, sum býr millum úlvar, má ýla við teimum”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is H-A-N-N-,- -S-U-M- -B-Ý-R- -M-I-L-L-U-M- -Ú-L-V-A-R-,- -M-Á- -Ý-L-A- -V-I-Ð- -T-E-I-M-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [han sʊm bʊir mɪdlʊn ʏlvar mɔa ʊila vi taimʊn] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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