No. 4,346 in German
fünfmal
"Fünfmal" means "five times" in English.
In a sentence
Ich ging fünfmal ins Kino letzte Woche.
I went to the cinema five times last week.
The word 'fünfmal' is used to indicate the frequency of an action, specifically the number of times it was performed; here, it describes how many times the speaker went to the cinema.
Er rief mich fünfmal an, bevor ich antwortete.
He called me five times before I answered.
'Fünfmal' shows the repetition of an event, specifically the frequency of calls made by the subject before the speaker responded.
Wir haben diese Übung schon mindestens fünfmal gemacht.
We have already done this exercise at least five times.
In this sentence, 'fünfmal' is used to emphasize the number of repetitions of a particular action completed in the past.
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