Frequency / Repetition
How often does it happen?
Meaning
How many times or how regularly an event happens: once, often, always, never, repeatedly, usually, sometimes.
How to spot it
Find words that say how often something happens.
Examples
always|often|sometimes|never|twice
every day|three times a week|again and again
He usually drinks coffee in the morning.
Visual guide
Event marks on time: |--x--|--x--|--x--| x = it happens How often? often / never / twice He usually drinks coffee.
Frequency vs habitual: Frequency: how many times? once, twice, every day Habitual: regular pattern He usually drinks coffee. Forms: adverb, reduplication, particle, special verb form
Language View
In your native language
English uses frequency adverbs and time phrases to show habits and repetition.
I often drink coffee.
often = repeated frequency
In your learning language
Frequency is commonly expressed with adverbs and useful verb patterns like soler and volver a.
Suelo correr los lunes.
I usually run on Mondays.
Learners may translate 'used to' or 'again' too literally instead of using natural Spanish patterns.
Same block, different coding
Both languages use this block strongly, but they signal it differently. Focus on form changes, not only meaning.