German verb · CEFR B2
aufgehoben
Meaning in English: lifted, cancelled; kept
This is a form of aufheben, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Die Sperrung der Straße wurde heute aufgehoben.
The road closure was lifted today.
How common is aufgehoben?
aufgehoben is number 3,183 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,179Händenhands (dative plural)
- 3,180nochmalagain, once more
- 3,181bestensvery well, excellently
- 3,182zwingendmandatory, necessarily
- 3,183aufgehobenlifted, cancelled; kept
- 3,184Symptomesymptoms
- 3,185entfernento remove
- 3,186erheblicheconsiderable, significant
- 3,187die Broschürebrochure
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