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darüber

German, adverb/daˈʁyːbɐ/

darüber is spelled D-A-R-Ü-B-E-R (7 letters) and appears 275 times per million words in written German, the 329th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Darüber is a German adverb meaning “above, above it/this/that” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “im Raum oberhalb von etwas”.

What does darüber mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    above, above it/this/that

  2. 2

    about it/this/that (concerning a matter)

  3. 3

    over, over it/this/that, thereover

    Senioren von 80 Jahren und darüber

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. im Raum oberhalb von etwas 2. über etwas hinweg, so dass es drunter landet 3. über etwas, über ein bestimmtes Maß hinaus, mehr als 4. während die Zeit einer Handlung vergeht, währenddessen, zwischenzeitlich

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 darüber

  • drüber alternative
  • dadrüber variant

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce darüber?

  • /daˈʁyːbɐ/
  • [daˈʁyːbɐ]
  • [ˈdaːʁyːbɐ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to darüber

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is darüber in German?

darüber appears 275 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).

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