word | often |
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definition | adverb If something often happens, it happens many times or much of the time. They often spent Christmas at Prescott Hill. Early American weathervanes were most often cut from flat wooden boards. They used these words freely, often in front of their parents too. It was often hard to work and do the course at the same time. That doesn't happen very often. You use how often to ask questions about frequency . You also use often in reported clauses and other statements to give information about the frequency of something. How often do you brush your teeth? I don't know how often I heard the same awful jokes. Unemployed people were victims of personal crime twice as often as employed people. |
cefr-level | A1 |
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