oft
Meaning in English: often
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Wir gehen oft am Fluss spazieren.
We often go for walks by the river.
Forms of oft in the top 5,000
These forms of oft are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Du solltest öfter eine Pause machen.
You should take a break more often.
How common is oft?
oft is number 259 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 331 times per million words — about once every 3,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 53% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#259
- The 1,000 most common German words#259
- The 5,000 most common German words#259
- German A1 vocabulary#160
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