German adverb · CEFR B2
offenbar
Meaning in English: apparently, evidently
Example
Er hat offenbar den Zug verpasst.
He has apparently missed the train.
How common is offenbar?
offenbar is number 777 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 115 times per million words — about once every 8,700 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 62% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
offenbar is built from offen (open).
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