often

Signification (Anglais)

Adv

Frequently; many times on different occasions.

Adj

Frequent.

Concepts

souvent

fréquemment

beaucoup

fréquement

combien de fois

maintes fois

tous les combien

fréquent

à plusieurs reprises

assez souvent

Opposé de

infrequently, occasionally, rarely, seldom, unoften, often

Synonymes

frequently

regularly

repeatedly

always

constantly

many times

oftentimes

usually

continually

habitually

frequent

commonly

again and again

perpetually

every now and then

normally

generally

oft

occasionally

ofttimes

invariably

over and over

sometimes

ever

many a time

very often

much

already

now and then

a lot

ordinarily

rapidly

as usual

lately

time and again

a great deal

so many times

steadily

still

substantially

tend to

twice

vastly

well

as formerly

continuous but slightly

not infrequently

oftentime

frequentry

oftener

Traductions

oft

häufig

a menudo

spesso

vaak

frequentemente

dikwijls

sovente

frecuentemente

frequentemente

saepe

con frecuencia

öfters

sovint

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɒf(t)ən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: often

Appartenant à moyen anglais: selden

Hérité de moyen anglais: ofte

Hérité de ancien anglais: oft

Appartenant à écossais: oftin

Appartenant à frison septentrional: oftem

Appartenant à saterlandais: oafte

Appartenant à allemand: oft

Appartenant à pennsilfaanisch: oft

Appartenant à danois: ofte

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: ofte

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: ofte

Appartenant à suédois: ofta

Appartenant à islandais: oft

In summary

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”).

Phrases

He had a great memory for poetry and often quoted it at length .

Il avait un grand souvenir pour la poésie et l'a souvent cité longuement.

The bases for these sculptures often are set in soil taken from these places .

Les bases de ces sculptures sont souvent fixées dans le sol prélevé sur ces lieux.

The exact shape of the cavity is often dependent on how many lamps are used .

La forme exacte de la cavité dépend souvent du nombre de lampes utilisées.

Less often , longer works are referred to as novellas .

Moins souvent, les travaux plus longs sont appelés romans.

These often favour the major parties and discriminate against smaller , regional parties .

Ceux-ci favorisent souvent les principaux partis et discriminent les parties régionales plus petites.

These were often produced by printers who specialised in them .

Ceux-ci étaient souvent produits par des imprimantes qui se sont spécialisées en eux.