die Aufgabe
Meaning in English: task, exercise
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Die Aufgabe ist schwerer als gedacht.
The task is harder than expected.
Der, die or das?
Aufgabe is feminine: die Aufgabe. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Aufgabe in the top 5,000
These forms of Aufgabe are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Machen Sie bitte die Aufgaben auf Seite zehn.
Please do the exercises on page ten.
How common is Aufgabe?
Aufgabe is number 663 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 134 times per million words — about once every 7,500 words. Its most frequent form is Aufgaben (#480).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 61% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 659bringtbrings
- 660Fansfans
- 661hältholds; stops; keeps
- 662Hausehome (zu Hause, nach Hause)
- 663die Aufgabetask, exercise
- 664weltweitworldwide
- 665der Schutzprotection
- 666entwickelndevelop
- 667Erfahrungenexperiences
In these word lists
- The 1,000 most common German words#663
- The 5,000 most common German words#663
- The most common German nouns#189
- German A2 vocabulary#166
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#66
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.