Selbsterhaltung
German, noun
Selbsterhaltung is spelled S-E-L-B-S-T-E-R-H-A-L-T-U-N-G (15 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 76,606th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Selbsterhaltung is a German feminine noun meaning “self-preservation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Selbsterhaltung mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineself-preservation
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Selbsterhaltung
- Selbsterhaltungen plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Selbsterhaltung?
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Selbsterhaltung in German?
Selbsterhaltung appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).