No. 408 in German
kürzlich
"Recently"
In a sentence
Ich habe kürzlich ein interessantes Buch gelesen.
I recently read an interesting book.
In this sentence, 'kürzlich' is used as an adverb to indicate that the action happened a short time ago.
Warst du kürzlich in der Stadt?
Have you been in the city recently?
Here, 'kürzlich' asks if an action occurred in the near past, functioning as a temporal adverb.
Kürzlich gab es eine wichtige Ankündigung.
Recently, there was an important announcement.
In this example, 'kürzlich' emphasizes that the event described happened just a short while ago.
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