zunächst — first, at first, initially, for now in German
/tsuˈnɛçst/
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B1
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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.
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Corpus Neighbors
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dabei
thereby, there, with it, in doing so, at the same time, while doing
nun
now, then
damit
with it, with that
bereits
already
etwa
about, approximately, roughly, for instance, for example
dafür
for it, for this, for that
allerdings
though, however, but, certainly, indeed
zwar
although, indeed, admittedly, to be precise, certainly
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