See also: Töten, toten, and Toten

German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle High German tœten, tœden, from Old High German tōden, from Proto-West Germanic *daudijan.

Compare Old Norse deyða (> Danish døde, Swedish döda), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (dauþjan), Dutch doden and also English deaden.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtøːtən/, [ˈtøːtn̩]
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  • Hyphenation: tö‧ten

Verb

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töten (weak, third-person singular present tötet, past tense tötete, past participle getötet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (transitive) to kill
    Zehn Menschen wurden bei dem Anschlag getötet.
    Ten people were killed in the attack.

Usage notes

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  • In formal style, töten is an adequate translation of English “to kill” in its literal meaning. Colloquially, the verb umbringen is preferred and töten is rare. In particular, only umbringen is generally used in figurative senses. For example: Ich bring meinen Freund um, wenn er meine Blumen nicht gegossen hat! – “I'll kill my boyfriend if he hasn't watered my flowers!”

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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See also

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Further reading

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  • töten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • töten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • töten” in Duden online
  • töten” in OpenThesaurus.de

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Noun

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töten

  1. smoke