German adverb · CEFR B2
vorerst
Meaning in English: for the time being, for now
Example
Wir bleiben vorerst bei meinen Eltern.
We're staying with my parents for the time being.
How common is vorerst?
vorerst is number 2,064 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 44 times per million words — about once every 23,000 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.
Related words in the list
vorerst is built from erst (only (not until); first).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,060geändertchanged
- 2,061tollegreat, fantastic (inflected)
- 2,062Akteureactors, players, stakeholders
- 2,063verteiltdistributed, spread; handed out
- 2,064vorerstfor the time being, for now
- 2,065der Vortragtalk, lecture, presentation
- 2,066weistpoints, shows, refers
- 2,067festgelegtset, fixed, determined
- 2,068deinenyour (informal; acc./dat.)
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