Jährlich

Jährlich is a German adverb meaning “every year” or “on a yearly basis.” It indicates a recurrence with a period of one year and is commonly used to describe how often an action occurs or how often something happens. Examples: Die Kosten steigen jährlich. Die Berichte werden jährlich veröffentlicht. In addition to jährlich, one often uses phrases like einmal jährlich (once a year) or zweimal jährlich (twice a year) to specify frequency.

As an adjective form, jährlichem, jährliche, or jährliche depends on gender, case, and number, but the attributive adjective used before a noun is not jähr lich. For example: der jährliche Bericht, eine jährliche Auszahlung, das jährliche Ereignis. The adverbial form jährlich and the adjective form are related but serve different grammatical roles.

Etymology traces jährlich to Jahr (year) combined with the suffix -lich, which yields both an adjective meaning “yearly” and an adverb meaning “annually.” The word is cognate with the English yearly.

Usage notes: Jährlich is neutral and common in formal and administrative language, finance, and reporting. It frequently appears in official documents, budgetary statements, and terms of contracts to denote annual occurrences or payments. In some contexts, alljährlich can be used to emphasize that something occurs every single year without exception.

Related terms include jährlich, alljährlich, und alljährlich wiederkehrend.