I have encountered many times two prepositions for "Zeit", in and zu.
in dieser Zeit
zu dieser Zeit
It may sound mundane to natural speakers but I'm just curious, is there any difference between them?
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Sign up to join this communityI have encountered many times two prepositions for "Zeit", in and zu.
in dieser Zeit
zu dieser Zeit
It may sound mundane to natural speakers but I'm just curious, is there any difference between them?
Yes, in different contexts:
In both cases you refer to a time - while the first option refers to a time span, the second option will mostly refer to a point of time :
I've chosen this example to point out that zu dieser Zeit
can also refer to a time span - in case the reference dieser Zeit
is a time span too.