at times

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at times

1. (idiomatic) On occasion, sometimes.

   Synonyms: at turns, in times, occasionally; see also Thesaurus:occasionally

   I feel lonely at times, but then somebody phones, or calls round, and I cheer up again.

   • 4 March 2015, Louise Taylor, “Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.

Translations

on occasion, sometimes

• Arabic: أَحْيَانًا (ʔaḥyānan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有時／有时 (zh) (yǒushí), 有時候／有时候 (zh) (yǒushíhou)

• Danish: til tider
• Finnish: ajoittain (fi), välillä (fi), joskus (fi)
• French: parfois (fr), de temps à autre (fr)
• German: zeitweise (de)
• Greek: κατά καιρούς (katá kairoús)
• Hebrew: לִפְעָמִים (he) (lif'`amím)
• Hungarian: időnként (hu), néha (hu), olykor (hu)
• Irish: scaití
• Italian: a volte, talvolta (it), di quando in quando
• Japanese: 時時 (ja) (ときどき, tokidoki), 時々 (ja) (ときどき, tokidoki)
• Korean: 자주 (ko) (jaju)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: til tider

  Nynorsk: til tider

• Old English: hwilum
• Polish: niekiedy (pl), czasami (pl), momentami (pl), chwilami (pl)
• Portuguese: às vezes (pt)
• Romanian: câteodată (ro), uneori (ro)
• Russian: иногда́ (ru) (inogdá), времена́ми (ru) (vremenámi), подча́с (ru) (podčás)
• Slovak: občas
• Spanish: a veces (es)

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