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often ☊ nhiều khi ☊
EVP often
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OXF3000ZH: 经常 ☊ → 常常 ☊ → ☊ → often
3000TH: ไม่บ่อย ☊ maiF baawyL seldom, not often
3000TH: สัก ☊ sakL just, about, around (often implying "as little as...")
3000TH: นะ ☊ naH polite particle, softener: used to make the question sound less abrupt
3000TH: บ่อย ☊ baawyL often
5000FR: souvent ☊ often
OXF3000: thường often
GBENDE: 经常的 often häufig
CORE: often + + + + + + +
NGLS: often + Many times, frequently, on many occasions ☊
ENDE: often häufig ENDE: often oft FN: often adv Frequency
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Her cats often eat fish. ☊ Những con mèo của cô ấy thường xuyên ăn cá. ☊ Frequency
I often have headaches. Tôi thường xuyên bị nhức đầu. * 059
Do you often ask the teacher questions? Bạn hỏi thầy giáo nhiều không? * 064
like: often → →
as it is often called ☊ như thường được gọi ☊
278 We often sleep late on weekends. ☊ Chúng tôi thường ngủ muộn vào cuối tuần. ☊
280 I sometimes walk to work, but not often. ☊ Thỉnh thoảng tôi đi bộ đi làm, nhưng không thường xuyên. ☊
308 I often forget people's names. ☊ Tôi thường không nhớ được tên mọi người. ☊
314 I often get up before seven (7:00). ☊ Tôi thường dậy trước bảy giờ. ☊
323 We don't watch TV very often. ☊ Chúng tôi không xem vô tuyến thường xuyên. ☊
325 It doesn't rain very often. ☊ Trời không mưa thường xuyên lắm. ☊
332 Sometimes he's late, but not often. ☊ Thỉnh thoảng anh ấy có đi muộn, nhưng không thường xuyên. ☊
334 I don't do it very often. ☊ Tôi không làm thế thường xuyên lắm. ☊
354 I don't watch TV very often. ☊ Tôi không xem vô tuyến thường xuyên lắm. ☊
355 I don't like to go to bars very often. ☊ Tôi không đi bar thường xuyên lắm. ☊
360 He has a car, but he doesn't use it very often. ☊ Anh ấy có xe hơi nhưng anh ấy không dùng nó thường xuyên. ☊
365 He lives near us, but we don't see him very often. ☊ Anh ấy sống gần chúng tôi nhưng chúng tôi không gặp anh ấy thường xuyên lắm. ☊
378 How often do you wash your hair? ☊ Cậu rửa tay bao lâu một lần? ☊
395 Yaqin often travels on business. How about Gary? Does he often travel on business? ☊ Nhã Cầm thường đi công tác. Còn Gary thì sao? Anh ấy có hay đi công tác không? ☊
401 How often do you watch TV? ☊ Cậu xem vô tuyến bao lâu một lần? ☊
409 How often does it snow here? ☊ Ở đây bao lâu tuyết rơi một lần? ☊
434 I don't watch TV very often. ☊ Tôi không xem vô tuyến thường xuyên lắm. ☊
468 He's a good tennis player, but he doesn't play very often. ☊ Anh ấy là một tay vợt giỏi nhưng anh ấy không chơi thường xuyên lắm. ☊
470 I don't watch TV very often. ☊ Tôi không xem vô tuyến thường xuyên lắm. ☊
473 How often do you read the news? ☊ Cậu có đọc báo bao lâu một lần? ☊
605 Hannah often loses her keys. > She lost her keys last week. ☊ Hannah thường xuyên làm mất chìa khoá. Tuần trước cô ấy làm mất chìa khoá. ☊
608 We often go to the movies on weekends. > Last Sunday we went to the movies. ☊ Chúng tôi thường đi xem lm vào cuối tuần. Chủ nhật vừa rồi chúng tôi có đi xem lm. ☊
613 I don't watch TV very often. ☊ Tôi không xem vô tuyến thường xuyên lắm. ☊
615 Does she go out often? ☊ Cô ấy có thường xuyên ra ngoài không? ☊
1030 This word is not used very often. ☊ Từ này không được dùng thường xuyên lắm. ☊
1110 Gabriele doesn't go out very often. ☊ Gabriele không ra ngoài thường xuyên lắm. ☊
1131 My parents are usually at home. They don't go out very often. ☊ Bố mẹ tôi thường ở nhà. Họ không ra ngoài thường xuyên lắm. ☊
1157 Giuliana has a car, but she doesn't drive it very often. ☊ Giuliana có xe hơi nhưng cô ấy không lái nó thường xuyên lắm. ☊
1562 I like onions, but I don't eat them very often. ☊ Tôi thích hành nhưng tôi không ăn thường xuyên lắm. ☊
2052 It's not my favorite job, but I like cleaning the kitchen as often as possible. ☊ Đấy không phải công việc tôi thích nhưng tôi thích dọn bếp thường xuyên nhất có thể. ☊
2092 Malika's husband is often away. She doesn't mind. She's used to him being away. ☊ Chồng của Malika thường xuyên đi vắng. Cô ấy không bận tâm. Cô ấy đã quen với việc anh ấy đi vắng. ☊
2125 People often have a lot of trouble reading my handwriting. ☊ Mọi người thường rất khó đọc được chữ viết tay của tôi. ☊
2129 How often do you go swimming? ☊ Bao lâu cậu đi bơi một lần? ☊
2144 often. ☊ Họ đã chuyển tới thành phố để họ có thể gặp con họ thường xuyên hơn. ☊
2421 I don't go out very often. I stay home most days. ☊ Tôi không ra ngoài thường xuyên lắm. Tôi ở nhà gần như hàng ngày. ☊
2457 We don't see each other very often. About every six (6) months. ☊ Chúng tôi không gặp nhau thường xuyên lắm. Khoảng sáu tháng một lần. ☊
2600 The buses run more often than the trains. ☊ Xe bus chạy thường xuyên hơn tàu hoả. ☊
She had been there often as a child (= when she was a child). ☊ as ☊
I often get asked that! ☊ ask ☊
Tourists often disturb the delicate balance of nature on the island. ☊ balance ☊
I see her most weekends but not very often in between. ☊ between ☊
break sth: a broken night's sleep (= a night during which you often wake up) ☊ break ☊
How often do you go to church? ☊ church ☊
Women very often have to juggle work with their family commitments. ☊ commitment ☊
People often lose confidence when they are criticized. ☊ confidence ☊
While girls lack confidence, boys often overestimate their abilities. ☊ confidence ☊
John often comes into conflict with his boss. ☊ conflict ☊
People often confuse me and my twin sister. ☊ confuse ☊
In her job she often comes into contact with (= meets) lawyers. ☊ contact ☊
A bicycle is often more convenient than a car in towns. ☊ convenient ☊
The standards of housing and education are often lower in the older urban cores (= the centres of towns or cities). ☊ core ☊
Her poems often deal with the subject of death. ☊ deal with sth ☊
We see them a great deal (= often). ☊ deal ☊
People often give very different accounts of the same event. ☊ different ☊
He's got a dirty mind (= he often thinks about sex). ☊ dirty ☊
She took to drink (= often drank too much alcohol) after her marriage broke up. ☊ drink ☊
Mothers are often the ones who provide emotional support for the family. ☊ emotional ☊
You can try your best to impress the interviewers but in the end it's often just a question of luck. ☊ in the end ☊
escape (into sth): As a child he would often escape into a dream world of his own. ☊ escape ☊
Japan is often quoted as the prime example of a modern industrial nation. ☊ example ☊
How often do you exercise? ☊ exercise ☊
express yourself: Teenagers often have difficulty expressing themselves. ☊ express ☊
Voluntary work was particularly important in view of the fact that women were often forced to give up paid work on marriage. ☊ fact ☊
a rock festival (= where bands perform, often outdoors and over a period of several days) ☊ festival ☊
They often go fishing. ☊ fishing ☊
How frequent is this word (= how often does it occur in the language)? ☊ frequent ☊
I often wonder what future generations will make of our efforts. ☊ generation ☊
She gets (= often suffers from) really bad headaches. ☊ get ☊
Disease often goes with poverty. ☊ go with sth ☊
Disease and poverty often go together. ☊ go with sth ☊
She often goes around barefoot. ☊ go around/round ☊
I felt guilty about not visiting my parents more often. ☊ guilty ☊
She often wears her hair loose. ☊ hair ☊
I often think about my friends back home. ☊ home ☊
How often do you go swimming? ☊ how ☊
He resigned because of ill health (= he was often ill). ☊ ill ☊
indicate sth: A red sky at night often indicates fine weather the next day. ☊ indicate ☊
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was often known by his initials JFK. ☊ initial ☊
Children often feel jealous when a new baby arrives. ☊ jealous ☊
They often make jokes at each other's expense. ☊ joke ☊
joke about sth: They often joked about all the things that could go wrong. ☊ joke ☊
If an animal is badly injured, often the kindest thing to do is to destroy it painlessly. ☊ kind ☊
She lives alone and often feels lonely. ☊ lonely ☊
I saw a lot of her (= I saw her often) last summer. ☊ lot ☊
I play tennis quite a lot (= often) in the summer. ☊ lot ☊
Words often have several meanings. ☊ meaning ☊
When they quarrel, I am often caught in the middle. ☊ middle ☊
mind how, where, etc...: Mind how you go! (= often used when you say goodbye to sb) ☊ mind ☊
Anger is often caused by frustration or embarrassment, or a mixture of the two. ☊ mixture ☊
They often wandered around the house stark naked (= completely naked). ☊ naked ☊
We would often have a walk of an evening. ☊ of ☊
We often go there. ☊ often ☊
I've often wondered what happened to him. ☊ often ☊
How often do you go to the theatre? ☊ often ☊
I see her quite often. ☊ often ☊
Try to exercise as often as possible. ☊ often ☊
We should meet for lunch more often. ☊ often ☊
It is not often that you get such an opportunity. ☊ often ☊
Old houses are often damp. ☊ often ☊
People are often afraid of things they don't understand. ☊ often ☊
All too often the animals die through neglect. ☊ often ☊
His success depended, as so often happens, on things entirely outside his control. ☊ often ☊
We've often thought of going there ourselves. ☊ ourselves ☊
I used to go there often in the past. ☊ past ☊
It is often stated that we use only 10 per cent of our brain. ☊ per cent ☊
People's clothes are often an expression of their personality. ☊ personality ☊
a public figure (= a person who is well known because they are often on the television, radio, etc.) ☊ public ☊
These fish are often eaten raw. ☊ raw ☊
She often wears red. ☊ red ☊
be remarked on: The similarities between the two have often been remarked on. ☊ remark ☊
How often do you go riding? ☊ ride ☊
I often go running before work. ☊ run ☊
Do you go sailing often? ☊ sail ☊
share sth with sb: People often share their political views with their parents. ☊ share ☊
share sth: Men often don't like to share their problems. ☊ share ☊
Emma has a sharp tongue (= she often speaks in an unpleasant or unkind way). ☊ sharp ☊
Fame is often simply a matter of being in the right place at the right time. ☊ simply ☊
Stress is often a factor in the development of long-term sickness. ☊ stress ☊
Blue suits you. You should wear it more often. ☊ suit ☊
Cook the lentils for 20 minutes until they swell and soften. ☊ swell ☊
How often do you go to the theatre? ☊ theatre ☊
Anne was fond of Tim, though he often annoyed her. ☊ though ☊
How many times (= how often) do I have to tell you not to do that? ☊ time ☊
Accidents like this happen all too (= much too) often. ☊ too ☊
Thirteen is often considered an unlucky number. ☊ unlucky ☊
It's not unusual for young doctors to work a 70-hour week (= it happens often). ☊ unusual ☊
How often do you use (= travel by) the bus? ☊ use ☊
Good education often depends on wealth. ☊ wealth ☊
souvent ☊ mais alors souvent en fin de soirée c’est la fête ☊