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offenbar: apparent — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

Quality-approved learning entryAdjectiveLevel B1

offenbar

apparent

clearly recognizable or evident

IPA/ˈɔfn̩baːɐ̯/

The main stress follows standard German pronunciation.

Meaning 1neutral · 88%

clearly recognizable or evident

Das war ein offenbarer Irrtum.

Zwischen den beiden Berichten besteht ein offenbarer Widerspruch.

Sein offenbares Interesse an dem Projekt war sofort zu erkennen.

In attributive adjective use, offenbar takes normal adjective endings: ein offenbarer Fehler, eine offenbare Lüge, ein offenbares Problem.

As an adjective, offenbar means evident or obvious and changes its ending before a noun.

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What does offenbar mean?

As an adjective, offenbar means clearly recognizable or evident, as in ein offenbarer Fehler. The same form is also common adverbially in German.