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Expresses the sevenfold repetition of an action or event, or the presence of something seven times over.
Ich musste siebenmal anklopfen, bevor jemand die Tür öffnete.
I had to knock seven times before someone opened the door.
This word follows a simple and productive pattern: number + '-mal' (times). You can form it with any cardinal number to express repetition, e.g. 'zweimal' (twice), 'dreimal' (three times), 'hundertmal' (a hundred times).
Ich habe den Film schon dreimal gesehen.
I have already seen the film three times.
As an adverb, 'siebenmal' (seven times) can stand flexibly in the sentence. It often appears in the middle field after the conjugated verb or at the beginning of the sentence for emphasis, which triggers inversion (verb in position 2).
Er hat den Test siebenmal wiederholt.
He repeated the test seven times.
You can also use 'siebenmal' (seven times) for comparisons and multiplication, often in the structure 'siebenmal so [Adjektiv] wie ...' (seven times as [adjective] as ...).
Das neue Gebäude ist siebenmal so hoch wie das alte.
The new building is seven times as tall as the old one.
The number seven has a strong symbolic meaning, for example in fairy tales. That is why 'siebenmal' (seven times) is sometimes also used exaggeratedly to mean 'very often,' not literally exactly seven times.
Ich habe dir doch schon siebenmal gesagt, du sollst dein Zimmer aufräumen!
I've already told you seven times to clean up your room!
