German adverb · CEFR B1
zwar
Meaning in English: admittedly (zwar … aber)
Example
Das Auto ist zwar alt, aber es fährt gut.
The car is old, admittedly, but it runs well.
How common is zwar?
zwar is number 275 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 310 times per million words — about once every 3,200 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 53% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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