Vergabe
German, noun
Vergabe is spelled V-E-R-G-A-B-E (7 letters) and appears 6.0 times per million words in written German, the 10,637th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vergabe is a German feminine noun meaning “awarding, allocation (awarding of a contract etc)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, vergäbe is a different word: “first/third-person singular subjunctive II of vergeben”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Übertragung von etwas an eine Person, Institution oder einen Betrieb (oder an mehrere)”.
What does Vergabe mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineawarding, allocation (awarding of a contract etc)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular subjunctive II of vergeben
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Übertragung von etwas an eine Person, Institution oder einen Betrieb (oder an mehrere)
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 Vergabe
- Vergaben plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Vergabe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Vergabe in German?
Vergabe appears 6.0 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).