aufpicken
German, verb
aufpicken is spelled A-U-F-P-I-C-K-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written German, the 301,457th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aufpicken is a German verb meaning “to pick up something (e.g., a bird picking up seeds from the ground)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Aufpicken is a different word: “gerund of aufpicken”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit dem Schnabel pickend aufnehmen”.
What does aufpicken mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pick up something (e.g., a bird picking up seeds from the ground)
- 2
to peck something open (e.g., a bird pecking its egg open)
- 3
Austriato glue on, stick on
noun
- 1
neutergerund of aufpicken
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit dem Schnabel pickend aufnehmen 2. etwas mit dem Schnabel hackend öffnen 3. etwas auf etwas kleben
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 aufpicken
- pickt auf present singular third-person
- pickte auf past
- aufgepickt participle past
- haben auxiliary
- aufpickend participle present
- aufzupicken infinitive infinitive-zu
- picke auf first-person indicative present
- picken auf first-person indicative plural
- pickst auf indicative present second-person
- pickest auf second-person singular subjunctive
- picket auf plural second-person subjunctive
- pickten auf first-person indicative plural
- picktest auf indicative preterite second-person
- picktet auf indicative plural preterite
- pick auf! imperative singular
- picke auf! imperative singular
- pickt auf! imperative plural
- aufgepickt haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aufpicken in German?
aufpicken appears about once in every 27 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).