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zunächst — first, at first, initially, for now in German

adverbB1
Pronunciation

/tsuˈnɛçst/

Quick Facts

Level

B1

Frequency

80/100

Source Rank

#369

Practice Path

Drill this word through the corpus instead of reading it once.

Example Sentences

Es kann zunächst verwirrend sein.

It can be confusing at first.

Zunächst glaubten sie ihm nicht.

At first, they didn't believe him.

Example sentences from Tatoeba, licensed under CC BY 2.0 FR.

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