"Aufgabe" meaning in German

See Aufgabe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈʔaʊ̯fˌɡaːbə/ Audio: De-at-Aufgabe.ogg [Austria], De-Aufgabe.ogg
Etymology: From Middle High German ūfgābe, ultimately a verbal noun from the ancestor of aufgeben. By surface analysis, auf (“up”) + Gabe (“gift, giving”). Compare also Dutch opgave, which may have borrowed the meaning "task" from the German. Etymology templates: {{inh|de|gmh|ūfgābe}} Middle High German ūfgābe, {{m|de|aufgeben}} aufgeben, {{surf|de|auf|Gabe|t1=up|t2=gift, giving}} By surface analysis, auf (“up”) + Gabe (“gift, giving”), {{cog|nl|opgave}} Dutch opgave Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Aufgabe f (genitive Aufgabe, plural Aufgaben) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Aufgabe [genitive], Aufgaben [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Aufgabe [nominative, singular], Aufgaben [definite, nominative, plural], Aufgabe [genitive, singular], Aufgaben [definite, genitive, plural], Aufgabe [dative, singular], Aufgaben [dative, definite, plural], Aufgabe [accusative, singular], Aufgaben [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. task, duty, job, chore, responsibility, business, office Tags: feminine Synonyms: Auftrag
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-E7zbczUt
  2. mission, task, challenge Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-bu48Kilq
  3. abandonment, surrender, relinquishment Tags: feminine Synonyms: Übergabe, Kapitulation
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-aZqWnoI8
  4. problem (math, arithmetic) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-rlGowyK6
  5. function, aim, object, purpose Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-J9r832JB
  6. assignment, work, exercise (at school) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-HIKmhph2 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 9 10 24 4 9 36 8
  7. posting (act of transporting mail) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-Aufgabe-de-noun-7TkQU0Gv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: Führungsaufgabe, Gemeinschaftsaufgabe, Hausaufgabe, Lebensaufgabe (english: life's work, life's purpose) [feminine], Querschnittsaufgabe, Rechenaufgabe, Textaufgabe, Übungsaufgabe Related terms: Abgabe, Angabe, aufgeben, Beigabe, Mitgabe, Übergabe, Vergabe, Vorgabe, Zurückgabe

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d7/De-Aufgabe.ogg/De-Aufgabe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/De-Aufgabe.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "de:Aufgabe"
  ],
  "word": "Aufgabe"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.