German adverb · CEFR B2
zuvor
Meaning in English: before, previously
Example
Am Tag zuvor hatte es geschneit.
It had snowed the day before.
How common is zuvor?
zuvor is number 443 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 198 times per million words — about once every 5,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 57% 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
- 439die Höheheight; level, amount
- 440verschiedenevarious, different
- 441der JanuarJanuary
- 442bringento bring, to take
- 443zuvorbefore, previously
- 444liegento lie; to be located
- 445der MittwochWednesday
- 446das Programmprogramme; program
- 447musstehad to
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