Abgabe
German, noun
Abgabe is spelled A-B-G-A-B-E (6 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written German, the 7,292nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Abgabe is a German feminine noun meaning “levy, tax, duty” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, abgäbe is a different word: “first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of abgeben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Zahlungen an Behörden”.
What does Abgabe mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelevy, tax, duty
- 2
femininedelivery, delivering (often used for delivery of pharmaceuticals drugs, chemical liquids, other substances and agents)
Abgabe an den Kunden.
- 3
femininesubmission, submitting, issuing (e.g., taxes, a bid, a rating)
- 4
femininerelease, emission, releasing (e.g., of energy, of a substance, of a chemical component)
- 5
femininesale
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular dependent subjunctive II of abgeben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Zahlungen an Behörden 2. Hinterlegen von Stoffen (bei Sammelstellen oder Verkaufsstellen) 3. Hinterlegen von Erklärungen, Absichten, Stimmen 4. Weitergabe von Strahlen oder Stoffen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Abgabe
- Abgaben plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Abgabe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Abgabe in German?
Abgabe appears 9.5 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).