German adverb · CEFR B1
rechtzeitig
Meaning in English: in time, on time
Example
Wir sind gerade noch rechtzeitig angekommen.
We arrived just in time.
How common is rechtzeitig?
rechtzeitig is number 1,892 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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