adverb · rare

oft

oft · ofter · oftest

часто

часто, зачастую

oft, häufig

Often; frequently; not rarelyOften; frequently; not rarely

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» A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.

Настроение женщины и зимняя погода очень изменчивы.

Meaning

1 senses

(dialectal, in compounds, poetic)Often; frequently; not rarely
An oft-told tale
1902, James H. Mulligan, In Kentucky, quoted in 2005, Wade Hall (editor), The Kentucky Anthology, page 203, The moonlight falls the softest In Kentucky; The summer days come oftest In Kentucky;
частоčasto

More definitions

many times at short intervals

Examples

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A woman's mind and winter wind change oft.
ruНастроение женщины и зимняя погода очень изменчивы.
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A woman's mind and winter's wind change oft.
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A noble man by woman's gentle word may oft be led.
deEin edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort der Frauen weit geführt.
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It was then that they published their oft-cited white paper on future of cryptocurrency in France.
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
deUnsere Zweifel sind Verräter und häufig die Ursache für den Verlust von Dingen, die wir gewinnen könnten, scheuten wir nicht den Versuch.
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Translations

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By meaning 1

often; frequently; not rarely; many times:

Origin

From Middle English oft (also ofte, often > Modern English often), from Old English oft (“

From Middle English oft (also ofte, often > Modern English often), from Old English oft (“often”), from Proto-West Germanic *oftu, *oftō, from Proto-Germanic *uftō (“often”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian oafte (“oft, often”), West Frisian oft, ofte (“oft, often”), Dutch oft (“oft, often”), German oft (“oft, often”). More at often.

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