die Zeit totschlagen
to kill time
Türkçe: vakit öldürmek
Watch out. Common mistake: learners use it in formal contexts where it sounds too casual.
In a sentence
Der Rentner schlägt die Zeit mit Schach im Park tot.
How it is used
Means 'to kill time' by doing trivial activities while waiting. Colloquial register. Use when waiting for a delayed train or a friend who's late. Common mistake: learners use it in formal contexts where it sounds too casual.
Other verbs that go with Zeit
This is the choice the collocation turns on.
- sich die Zeit vertreibento while away the time
- Zeit kostento take time
- gut in der Zeit liegento be ahead of or on schedule
- (viel) Zeit in etwas steckento invest a lot of time in
- sich Zeit lassen / nehmento take one's time
- Zeit haben / findento have/find time
- Zeit benötigen / brauchento need time
- Zeit gewinnento gain time
More from Gesellschaft und Leben
- die Macht habento have the power/authority
- in Verzug seinto be in arrears
- jdm. / etw. Bedeutung beimessento attach importance to
- in Ungnade fallento lose favor or approval from an authority figure
- sich (gewaltsam) Einlass verschaffento force one's way in
All collocations in Gesellschaft und Leben
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