Aufgabe

Borrowed from German Aufgabe.

Aufgabe (plural Aufgabes or Aufgaben)

1. (psychology) A predisposition toward particular mental operations inherent in the nature of a task or conveyed by the instructions for performing it.
2. (psychology) A task or assignment (involving such a predisposition).
   • 1902, William James, “Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , →OCLC, footnote 1, page 389:

     The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaʊ̯fˌɡaːbə/

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• Hyphenation: Auf‧ga‧be
• Rhymes: -aːbə

Aufgabe f (genitive Aufgabe, plural Aufgaben)

1. 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.

2. mission, task, challenge
3. abandonment, surrender, relinquishment

   Synonyms: Übergabe, Kapitulation

4. problem (math, arithmetic)
5. function, aim, object, purpose
6. assignment, work, exercise (at school)
7. posting (act of transporting mail)

• → Danish: opgave (calque)
• → Dutch: opgave (semantic loan)

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