Aufgabe

See also: aufgäbe

English

Borrowed from German Aufgabe.

Aufgabe (plural Aufgabes or Aufgaben)

(psychology) A predisposition toward particular mental operations inherent in the nature of a task or conveyed by the instructions for performing it.
(psychology) A task or assignment (involving such a predisposition).
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience ‎, London: Folio Society, published 2008, footnote, page 329:
  The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling.

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Aufgabe

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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.

Aufgabe f (genitive Aufgabe, plural Aufgaben)

task, duty, job, chore, responsibility, business, office
Synonym: Auftrag m
- 2010, Der Spiegel‎, number 31/2010, page 56:
  Die Aufgabe eines Verteidigers besteht darin, für seine Mandanten mit allen Mitteln des Rechtsstaats zu kämpfen.
  The duty of a defense lawyer consists of fighting for his clients with all constitutional means.
mission, task, challenge
abandonment, surrender, relinquishment
Synonyms: Übergabe, Kapitulation
problem (math, arithmetic)
function, aim, object, purpose
assignment, work, exercise (at school)
posting (act of transporting mail)

Declension of Aufgabe