oft

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (also ofte, often > Modern English often), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-West Germanic *oftu, *oftō, from Proto-Germanic *uftō (“often”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian oafte (“oft, often”), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), ofte (“oft, often”), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). More at often.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɔft/, enPR: ôft
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɑft/, enPR: ŏft
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɒft/, enPR: ŏft
• Rhymes: -ɒft

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oft (comparative ofter, superlative oftest)

1. (chiefly poetic, dialectal, and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely

   An oft-told tale

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     What I can do, can do no hurt to try:
     Since you ſet up your reſt 'gainſt remedy:
     He that of greateſt works is finiſher,
     Oft does them by the weakeſt miniſter;
     So holy writ in babes hath judgment ſhown,
     When judges have been babes.

   • 1819, George Gordon Byron, John Galt (biography), The Pophecy of Dante, Canto the Fourth, 1857, The Complete Works of Lord Byron, Volume 1, page 403,

     And how is it that they, the sons of fame,
     Whose inspiration seems to them to shine
     From high, they whom the nations oftest name,
     Must pass their days in penury or pain,
     Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame,
     And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain?

   • 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;

• In widespread contemporary use in combination.

• often

• FOT, TOF

From Proto-Germanic *ufta. Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

oft (comparative ofter, superlative oftst)

1. (obsolete) often

oft - instituut voor de Nederlandse taal

From Middle High German ofte, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), uft, from Old High German ofta, ofto, oftu, from Proto-Germanic *ufta, *uftō (“often”). Cognate with Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and often.

• IPA^(key): /ɔft/

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oft (comparative öfter, superlative am öftesten)

1. often

   Synonyms: dauernd, des Öfteren, fortgesetzt, gehäuft, häufig, immer wieder, laufend, mehrfach, mehrmalig, mehrmals, öfter, öfters, oftmalig, oftmals, regelmäßig, ständig, vielfach, vielmals, wiederholt, x-mal, zigmal

• The superlative is, for whatever reason, sometimes frowned upon and is predominantly replaced with am häufigsten in formal style. The comparative is also sometimes replaced with häufiger.

• (colloquial, figurative): dutzendfach, dutzendmal, hundertmal, tausendmal, millionenmal

• “oft” in Duden online
• “oft” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• IPA^(key): /oft/

oft

1. often

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) and opt (“oft, often”).

• Rhymes: -ɔft

oft (comparative oftar, superlative oftast)

1. often

   Ég fer oft í ræktina.

   I often go to the gym.

   Ég er oftast í tölvunni.

   I spend most of my time on the computer.

   Ég hef sigrað oftar en þú!

   I've won oftener than you!

• oftar en ekki (more often than not)

From Proto-Germanic *ufta.

• IPA^(key): /oft/

oft (comparative oftor, superlative oftost)

1. often

• seldan

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• opt

From Proto-Germanic *ufta.

oft

1. often

From Proto-Germanic *ufta.

oft

1. often

Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), English often, Swedish ofta.

oft

1. often, frequently

• efders
• oftmols

From aht.

oft n (plural ofturi)

1. sigh