Meaning
Indicates that two actions or events occur at the same time.
Primary Function
Temporal placement
Communicative Purpose
To express simultaneity of events or actions.
Pattern
Zur selben Zeit
Core Structure
Zur selben Zeit
Função primária
Temporal placement
Propósito comunicativo
To express simultaneity of events or actions.
Situações de gatilho
Describing parallel actions, historical narratives, daily reports.
Contextos
Everyday conversation, narratives, reports, formal and informal settings
Padrão
Zur selben Zeit
Estrutura central
Zur selben Zeit
Slots de substituição
No variable slots; the expression is fixed.
Colocados típicos
- beginnen
- stattfinden
- geschehen
- passieren
- erinnern
- gleichzeitig
Substituições comuns
- zur gleichen Zeit (synonymous)
- gleichzeitig (one word)
- parallel (slightly different context)
Erros comuns
Forgetting to capitalize 'Zeit', using the unidiomatic 'zu der selben Zeit', using 'selbe' instead of 'selben' (case error), misspelling as 'zur selben zeit' without capitalization
Similar / contraste
zur gleichen Zeit, gleichzeitig, parallel, währenddessen
Interferências
English speakers may mistakenly translate the English order 'at the same time' directly, leading to unnatural word order or may confuse 'zur selben Zeit' with 'zu der selben Zeit', which is less idiomatic.
Família do chunk
- zur gleichen Zeit
- gleichzeitig
- parallel
- gleichzeitig statt
- gleichzeitig mit
Nuance
Neutral expression used in both formal and informal contexts; emphasizes simultaneity without additional connotation.
Efeito pragmático
Signals to the interlocutor that multiple processes are occurring simultaneously, facilitating temporal understanding.
Dica de memória
simultaneously
Nota
In written texts, the variant 'zur gleichen Zeit' is often preferred as it sounds slightly more formal.
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Zur gleichen Zeit
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