auf

on, onto

The 12th most frequent word in German, appearing about 9,128 times per million words.

Type

preposition

Frequency rank

#12

Per million words

9,128

In a sentence

Which case does it take?

A two-way preposition. It takes the accusative when there is movement towards somewhere, and the dative when it describes a fixed location. Ich gehe in die Stadt (movement) versus Ich bin in der Stadt (location).

Related words

Other words of the same kind, at nearby frequency:

• mit with
• von from, of
• an at, on
• für for
• zu to
• in in

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