Does "die herself" mean " kill herself"?
I came across the phrase "die herself". Does it mean " kill herself"?
"Tobias became a carpenter, and married my sister Adelheid. They are very happy together. But only two years after they married, a beam fell on Tobias while he was building a house and killed him.My poor sister couldn't live without him and died herself a few weeks later."
This is from a novel " Heidi".
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It most likely means that "she died as well or also"
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It's not a transitive or reflexive use; "herself" is not critical to the sense of the phrase "she died a few weeks later", and just emphasizes "she", to draw attention to the fact that it was a second death. It could have been suicide, but there's nothing in the text to say it was, and in fact, it sounds more as if she lost the will to live and so died of natural causes.
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"died herself a few weeks later" means she also died after some time
it doesn't have any connection with "kill herself"
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"die herself" doesn't sound correct but "kill herself" means suicide. I would also like to see the context if possible.
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'Die herself' is not the same thing as 'kill herself' and it doesn't even sounds correct to begin with.
Could you give the context of both phrases?
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