Feminine
Aufgabe
- (feminine) task, duty, job, chore, responsibility, business, office
- (feminine) mission, task, challenge
- (feminine) abandonment, surrender, relinquishment
- (feminine) problem (math, arithmetic)
- (feminine) function, aim, object, purpose
- (feminine) assignment, work, exercise (at school)
- (feminine) posting (act of transporting mail)
Frequency
Dialects
Zürich
ufgab
Zürich
ufgabe
Zürich
uufgab
Basel-Landschaft
uffgoob
Zürich
uufgaab
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʔaʊ̯fˌɡaːbə/
Etymology
In summary
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.
Related words
one’s duty
exercitation
Amtspflicht
Weisung
Aufgabenstellung
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