Polyglot Dictionary

aufteilen

/ˈaʊfˌtaɪlən/

verb B2

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

V Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

present
teilt auf
past
teilte auf
perfect
hat aufgeteilt

Meaning

  1. to divide, to split up

    Built from auf (up, open) + teilen (to share).

V Category Action Concreteness Concrete Agency Voluntary Duration Durative Transitivity Transitive

Made of

  • auf up, open
  • teilen to share

Similar words

trennen

Aufteilen is to divide something up into shares or parts; trennen is to separate things that were together, without necessarily implying a fair division.

Similar in other languages

English

separate

separate is the English word for the same thing — both mean "to divide, to split up."

Practice

1 What does aufteilen mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wir teilen die Arbeit unter uns ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches aufteilen?

verbseparablecompound

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