German adverb · CEFR A2
irgendwann
Meaning in English: sometime, at some point
Example
Irgendwann möchte ich mal nach Island fahren.
I'd like to go to Iceland at some point.
How common is irgendwann?
irgendwann is number 2,415 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,411beschreibtdescribes
- 2,412Projektsof the project (genitive)
- 2,413die Aussagestatement; testimony
- 2,414die Ausnahmeexception
- 2,415irgendwannsometime, at some point
- 2,416gesetzlichestatutory, legal (inflected)
- 2,417Wortenwords (dative plural)
- 2,418getragencarried, worn
- 2,419der Königking
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