Auffassungsgabe
German, noun[ˈaʊ̯ffasʊŋsˌɡaːbə]
Auffassungsgabe is spelled A-U-F-F-A-S-S-U-N-G-S-G-A-B-E (15 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 74,397th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auffassungsgabe is a German feminine noun meaning “perceptive ability, perspicacity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Fähigkeit, etwas zu erfassen und geistig zu verarbeiten”.
What does Auffassungsgabe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineperceptive ability, perspicacity
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Fähigkeit, etwas zu erfassen und geistig zu verarbeiten
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce Auffassungsgabe?
- [ˈaʊ̯ffasʊŋsˌɡaːbə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Auffassungsgabe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Auffassungsgabe in German?
Auffassungsgabe appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).