German adverb · CEFR B1
etwa
Meaning in English: about, approximately
Example
Bis zum Strand sind es etwa zehn Minuten.
It's about ten minutes to the beach.
How common is etwa?
etwa is number 143 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 601 times per million words — about once every 1,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 47% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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