Feminine

Aufgabe

Meaning

  1. (feminine) task, duty, job, chore, responsibility, business, office
  2. (feminine) mission, task, challenge
  3. (feminine) abandonment, surrender, relinquishment
  4. (feminine) problem (math, arithmetic)
  5. (feminine) function, aim, object, purpose
  6. (feminine) assignment, work, exercise (at school)
  7. (feminine) posting (act of transporting mail)

Frequency

B1
Dialects

Zürich

Zürich

ufgab

Zürich

Zürich

ufgabe

Zürich

Zürich

uufgab

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

uffgoob

Zürich

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.

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