This is the 408th most frequent German word.
kürzlich
"Recently"
In this sentence, 'kürzlich' is used as an adverb to indicate that the action happened a short time ago.
Ich habe kürzlich ein interessantes Buch gelesen.
I recently read an interesting book.
Here, 'kürzlich' asks if an action occurred in the near past, functioning as a temporal adverb.
Warst du kürzlich in der Stadt?
Have you been in the city recently?
In this example, 'kürzlich' emphasizes that the event described happened just a short while ago.