German adverb · CEFR B2
ohnehin
Meaning in English: anyway, in any case
Example
Wir müssen ohnehin noch einkaufen gehen.
We have to go shopping anyway.
How common is ohnehin?
ohnehin is number 1,962 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 47 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 1,958der Landtagstate parliament
- 1,959rückento move, to shift
- 1,960zweimaltwice
- 1,961der Verbandassociation, federation, bandage
- 1,962ohnehinanyway, in any case
- 1,963reagierento react, to respond
- 1,964hoherhigh (inflected)
- 1,965trafmet, hit (past)
- 1,966einstonce, formerly
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