German adverb · CEFR B1
bereits
Meaning in English: already
Example
Der Zug war bereits abgefahren.
The train had already left.
How common is bereits?
bereits is number 92 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 977 times per million words — about once every 1,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 44% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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