German adverb · CEFR B2
mittlerweile
Meaning in English: meanwhile, by now
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Mittlerweile wohne ich schon zehn Jahre hier.
By now I've lived here for ten years.
How common is mittlerweile?
mittlerweile is number 592 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 149 times per million words — about once every 6,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 60% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 588grundsätzlichbasically, in principle
- 589Jugendlicheyoung people, teenagers
- 590einigensome, a few (dative)
- 591genutztused
- 592mittlerweilemeanwhile, by now
- 593die Websitewebsite
- 594nimmttakes
- 595die Nachtnight
- 596die Wohnungflat, apartment
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