It reads: " Schöne Ferienhäuser oder Hotels bekommt man eben nur, wenn man sie rechtzeitig bucht ". What is the purpose of the word eben in that sentence? A friend told me that it has no special meaning and was there only to serve as an emphasis.
I still don't quite understand the concept - would the sentence still work absent of that word? Eben expresses that what is being said is a fact, as halt does, but less colloquially. Nonetheless, it's useful anwer as it mentions that eben here is a modal particle. Have you looked up "eben" (Modalpartikel) and "auch" in a dictionary?
eben byers, There's no further meaning to "eben auch" than just "eben" and "auch". The meaning of "auch" can depend on context-- if you struggle with that, a full sentence in the question would help us to answer that. Es gibt viele Idiome im Deutschen, aber zwei Wörter sind manchmal eben auch einfach nur zwei Wörter. Jetzt habe ich gerade eben noch mal die Auftragsbestätigung durchgelesen. I'd really appreciate it if you explained what kind of meaning the person is trying to convey by that combination of words.
eben byers, Eben eben noch When used as a particle, it can always be preceded (in your mind) by macht nichts or kein Problem: üben There's also a third, non-temporal and less frequently used meaning of eben noch, which is the same as gerade noch: eben noch (stress is marked in bold in all examples) I'd like to know what kind of difference there is between these two synonyms when they are used in the meaning "just now (happened)". Soeben schlägt es zwölf. Eben schlägt es zwölf. And... Eben und halt, was ist der Unterschied? Ask Question Asked 7 years, 2 months ago Modified 7 years, 2 months ago Eben und halt, was ist der Unterschied?
