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advérbioadjetivotop 1 000 nos diálogos de cinema

  • Reino Unido//ˈɒfən//
  • Reino Unido//ˈɒftən//
  • Reino Unido//ˈɔːfən//
  • Reino Unido//ˈɔːftən//
  • Reino Unido//ˈɔfən//

Frequently; many times on different occasions.

advérbio

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    Frequently; many times on different occasions.

    I often walk to work when the weather is nice.

    I’ve been going to the movies more often since a new theatre opened near me.

    It can't be said too often / often enough.

    ☞ This word [wrap] is often pronounced wrop, rhyming with top, even by ſpeakers much above the vulgar.

Etimologia

From Middle English often, alteration (with final -n added due to analogy with Middle English selden (“seldom”)) of Middle English ofte, oft, from Old English oft (“often”), from Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uftō (“often”). Cognates Cognate with Scots affen, aften, af'en, oaffen, oaften, oftin (“often”), North Frisian aaft, oftem, oofting (“often”), Saterland Frisian oafte (“often”), German, Luxembourgish and Pennsylvania German oft (“often”), Yiddish אָפֿט (oft, “often”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk ofte (“often”), Faroese, Swedish ofta (“often”), Icelandic oft (“often”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐍄𐌰 (ufta, “often”).

adjetivo

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    arcaicoFrequent.

    […] it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

    1618, Anthony Munday (translator), The Third Booke of Amadis de Gaule by Nicolas de Herberay des Essarts (1542), London, Chapter 2, p. 18, Then came the Ladies to visite him, and the Queene gaue him most gracious welcome, desiring him to be of good cheere: For heere is my Daughter (quoth she) right skilfull in the Art of Chirurgerie, that meanes to bee your often visitant.

    The Shew-bread by an often remove, and renewing, was continually to stand before the Lord in his House […]

Formas

comparativo
more often, oftener
superlativo
most often, oftenest
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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

Posição entre as palavras do corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — legendas de cinema e televisão, ou seja língua falada e não escrita (CC BY-SA 3.0).