German adverb · CEFR C1
derweil
Meaning in English: meanwhile
Example
Ich koche, du kannst derweil den Tisch decken.
I'll cook; meanwhile you can set the table.
How common is derweil?
derweil is number 3,002 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 29 times per million words — about once every 35,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.
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- 3,002derweilmeanwhile
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- 3,005die Literaturliterature
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