aufrufen
German, verb
aufrufen is spelled A-U-F-R-U-F-E-N (8 letters) and appears 4.6 times per million words in written German, the 13,123rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aufrufen is a German verb meaning “to call on people to do something, to call for” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Aufrufen is a different word: “dative plural of Aufruf”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “jemanden zu einer Aktion auffordern”.
What does aufrufen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to call on people to do something, to call for
zum Protest aufrufen
- 2
to call up (display data or a file on the screen)
- 3
to call (a function)
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Aufruf
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. jemanden zu einer Aktion auffordern 2. (eine Datei) öffnen
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 aufrufen
- ruft auf present singular third-person
- rief auf past
- aufgerufen participle past
- haben auxiliary
- 7 strong
- aufrufend participle present
- aufzurufen infinitive infinitive-zu
- rufe auf first-person indicative present
- rufen auf first-person indicative plural
- rufst auf indicative present second-person
- rufest auf second-person singular subjunctive
- rufet auf plural second-person subjunctive
- riefen auf first-person indicative plural
- riefe auf first-person formal rare
- riefst auf indicative preterite second-person
- rieft auf indicative plural preterite
- riefest auf formal rare second-person
- riefet auf formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is aufrufen in German?
aufrufen appears 4.6 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).