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hilfreich — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • assistant noun A person who helps someone else with their work.
  • helpful adj Giving useful help or assistance.
  • instrumental adj Playing a key or essential role in making something happen.

Senses

hilfreich is used for these senses in English:

  • adjuvant (formal) Providing assistance or help; assistive, facilitative, helpful. [from 16th c.]
  • assistant Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
  • helpful Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.
  • instrumental (grammar) Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally corresponding to the English use of prepositions such as by, with, through, or by means of with the objective case.

assistant — full definition

  1. noun A person who helps someone else with their work.
  2. adj Holding a supporting or secondary role beneath a more senior position.

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