Vokabahn

das Leben

A1 Noun frequency rank #98

What Leben means

Noun

  1. life; being alive
  2. a state in which organic entities such as animals, plants and bacteria have properties like metabolism, adaptation and replication
  3. the entirety of those who are in this state
  4. the time period in which one is in this state; the time between birth and death

Forms

das Leben · die Leben

Plural: Leben

Pronunciation

Leben in a sentence

Hast du eine Vorstellung davon, wie mein Leben aussieht?

Do you have any idea what my life is like?

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Leben is A1 German — one of the first words a beginner meets, ranked #98 of 13,000 by how often it appears in written German.

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