sich das Leben nehmen

/[…]/ phrase

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

Key facts for sich das Leben nehmen
PropertyValue
Headwordsich das Leben nehmen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[…]
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “sich das Leben nehmen” sits in German frequency

sich das Leben nehmen 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 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

  1. 1
    Selbstmord verüben, sich selbst töten

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sich das Leben nehmen"?
"sich das Leben nehmen" is spelled S-I-C-H- -D-A-S- -L-E-B-E-N- -N-E-H-M-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "sich das Leben nehmen" mean?
As a phrase, "sich das Leben nehmen" means: Selbstmord verüben, sich selbst töten
How do you pronounce "sich das Leben nehmen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sich das Leben nehmen" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sich das Leben nehmen" come from?
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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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.