English
Adverb
Often (comparative more often or oftener, superlative most often or oftenest)
- Frequently, many times.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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Thesaurus
again and again, commonly, continually, day after day, day by day, frequently, habitually, in many instances, many a time, many times, many times over, most often, much, not infrequently, not seldom, oft, often enough, oftentimes, ofttimes, ordinarily, over and over, recurrently, regularly, repeatedly, routinely, several times, time after time, time and again, times without number, unseldom, usually, whenever you wish, year after year
Etymology
From Old English oft
Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /ˈɒfn/, /ˈɒftən/, SAMPA: /"Qfn/, /"Qft@n/
- Also IPA: /ˈɔːfn/, /ˈɔːftən/, SAMPA: /"O:fn/, /"O:ft@n/, at least in the US.
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- Rhymes: -ɒfən
- Hyphenation: of‧ten
Translations
Frequently, many times
- Albanian: shpesh (sq), shpesh (sq)
- Arabic: كثيرًا (ar) (kathiiran), غالبًا (ar) (ghaaliban)
- Armenian: հաճախ (hač̣ax)
- Basque: maiz (eu)
- Belarusian: часта (be) (částa)
- Breton: alies (br)
- Bulgarian: често (bg) (čésto)
- Catalan: sovint (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 常常 (cmn) (chángcháng), 經常 (cmn), 经常 (cmn) (jīngcháng), 時常 (cmn), 时常 (cmn) (shícháng), 往往 (cmn) (wǎngwǎng)
- Czech: často (cs)
- Dakota: s'a, ižehaŋ
- Dutch: vaak (nl), dikwijls (nl)
- Esperanto: ofte (eo)
- Estonian: tihti (et), sageli (et)
- Finnish: usein (fi)
- French: souvent (fr)
- Georgian: ხშირად (ka) (xširad), ხშირ-ხშირად (ka) (xšir-xširad)
- German: häufig (de), oft (de)
- Greek: συχνά (sikhná)
- Haitian Creole: souvan
- Hebrew: לְעִתִּים קְרוֹבוֹת (he) (l'itím k'rovót)
- Hindi: अक्सर (hi) (aksar)
- Hungarian: gyakran (hu)
- Icelandic: oft (is), ósjaldan (is), iðulega (is), oftlega (is), títt (is), þrá- (is)
- Ido: ofte (io)
- Indonesian: sering (id)
- Interlingua: sovente (ia)
- Italian: spesso (it)
- Japanese: よく (ja) (yoku), 度々 (ja) (たびたび, tabitabi), 頻繁に (ja) (ひんぱんに, hinpan-ni), しばしば (ja) (shibashiba)
- Khmer: ញឹកញាប់ (km) (ñeuk ñōǝp)
- Korean: 수시로 (ko) (susiro), 자주 (ko) (jaju)
- Kurdish: گهلێ جار (ku) (gelé car)، زۆر جار (ku) (zor car), بارهها (ku) (bareha)
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- Latin: saepe (la), saepenumerō (la)
- Latvian: bieži (lv)
- Lithuanian: dažnai (lt)
- Macedonian: често (mk) (čésto)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: ofte (no), hyppig (no)
- Ojibwe: moozhag
- Old English: oft (ang)
- Persian: اغلب (fa) (ağlab)
- Polish: często (pl)
- Portuguese: freqüentemente (pt)
- Romanian: des (ro)
- Romansch: savens (rm)
- Russian: часто (ru) (částo)
- Scots: aften
- Scottish Gaelic: gu tric (gd), tric (gd)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: че̑сто (sh)
- Roman: čȇsto (sh)
- Slovak: často (sk)
- Slovene: pogosto (sl)
- Spanish: a menudo (es), frecuentemente (es)
- Swedish: ofta (sv)
- Tamil: அடிக்கடி (ta) (adikadi), பலநேரம் (ta) (pala.naeram), அவ்வப்பொழுது (ta) (avvappolutu)
- Telugu: తరచూ (te) (tarachoo), తరచుగా (te) (tarachugaa)
- Thai: บ่อย (th) (bòi)
- Turkish: sık (tr), sık sık (tr)
- Ukrainian: часто (uk) (částo)
- Urdu: اکثر (ur) (aksar)
- Vietnamese: thường (vi), hay (vi), luôn (vi)
- Volapük: suvo (vo)
- Welsh: yn aml (cy)
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