often

Etymology
From, alteration (with final -n added due to analogy with 🇨🇬) of , , from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * Historically, the was pronounced but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced (as in, e.g.,, , ). Therefore, the modern forms where the  is pronounced (compare ) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional -less form is considered by many to be “more correct” for that reason.
 * Historically, the was pronounced but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced (as in, e.g.,, , ). Therefore, the modern forms where the  is pronounced (compare ) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional -less form is considered by many to be “more correct” for that reason.
 * Historically, the was pronounced but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced (as in, e.g.,, , ). Therefore, the modern forms where the  is pronounced (compare ) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional -less form is considered by many to be “more correct” for that reason.
 * Historically, the was pronounced but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced (as in, e.g.,, , ). Therefore, the modern forms where the  is pronounced (compare ) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional -less form is considered by many to be “more correct” for that reason.
 * Historically, the was pronounced but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced (as in, e.g.,, , ). Therefore, the modern forms where the  is pronounced (compare ) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional -less form is considered by many to be “more correct” for that reason.
 * Historically, the was pronounced but the current pronunciation was standardized after it stopped being pronounced (as in, e.g.,, , ). Therefore, the modern forms where the  is pronounced (compare ) are spelling-influenced pronunciations. The traditional -less form is considered by many to be “more correct” for that reason.

Adverb

 * 1) Frequently; many times.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: كَثِيرًا, غَالِبًا, كَثِيرًا مَا, غَالِبًا مَا, طَالَمَا
 * Moroccan Arabic: بالزاف, غالبا, غالبا ما
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: йыш
 * Basque: maiz
 * Belarusian: ча́ста
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 好多時,, 經常
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dakota: s'a, ižehaŋ
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: kringgt
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: tihti,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: a miúdo,, seguido
 * Georgian: ხშირად, ხშირ-ხშირად
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐍄𐌰
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πολλά, πολλάκις
 * Haitian Creole: souvan
 * Hebrew: לעיתים קרובות
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:, ósjaldan, iðulega, oftlega, títt,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: tihtii
 * Interlingua: sovente
 * Irish: go minic
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Javanese: kerep, asring
 * Kashubian: czãsto
 * Kazakh: жиі, жиі-жиі
 * Khmer: ញឹកញាប់
 * Kikuyu: kaingĩ
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گەلێ جار, زۆر جار, بارەھا
 * Kyrgyz:, тез-тез
 * Ladin: suënz, suvënz (gherdëina), gonot (badiot)
 * Ladino: akoruto
 * Lao: ຄ້ອຍ, ຈະໄຈ້, ບ່ອຍ
 * Latin:, saepenumerō
 * Latvian: bieži
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: saggõld
 * Low German:, , vaken
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: често
 * Malay:, , selalu
 * Maltese: spiss
 * Maori: putuputu, pūputu
 * Marathi: बहुधा, खूपदा, खूप वेळा, बर्‍याचदा, अनेकदा, पुष्कळदा, बर्‍याच वेळा, अनेक वेळा
 * Mongolian: байн байн,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: naɗi
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Ojibwe: moozhag
 * Old English: oft
 * Old Norse: opt
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: foaken
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: savens
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: aften
 * Scottish Gaelic: gu tric, tric
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: че̑сто
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: cesto
 * Spanish:, , , con frecuencia
 * Swahili: mara nyingi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: madalas
 * Tajik: зич, ағлаб
 * Tamil:, பலநேரம், அவ்வப்பொழுது
 * Tatar: еш
 * Telugu: తరచూ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:, ýygy, ýygy-ýygydan
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اکثر
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, , ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: yn aml, yn fynych
 * Yiddish: אָפֿט

Adjective

 * 1)  Frequent.
 * 2) * 1618, (translator), The Third Booke of  by  (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.
 * 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.

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) repeatedly, again and again, many times, frequently
 * 2) Under many circumstances, in many instances