sich das Leben nehmen
The verdict
“sich das Leben nehmen” 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
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Selbstmord verüben, sich selbst töten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sich das Leben nehmen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sich das Leben nehmen” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for sich das Leben nehmen is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. 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: "Selbstmord verüben, sich selbst töten".
No misspelling variants are generated for sich das Leben nehmen 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 sich das Leben nehmen, spelled S-I-C-H- -D-A-S- -L-E-B-E-N- -N-E-H-M-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Selbstmord verüben, sich selbst töten
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Using “sich das Leben nehmen”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-I-C-H- -D-A-S- -L-E-B-E-N- -N-E-H-M-E-N — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as […] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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