Mal meaning and definition in german

The unchanged plural (without -e) is obligatory after numerals. These combinations are always written as one word: einmal ‎(“once”), zweimal ‎(“twice”), dreimal ‎(“three times”), hundertmal ‎(“a hundred times”), and so on.
The unchanged plural may or may not be used after alle ‎(“all”) and beide ‎(“both”). These combinations are written as separate words according to the new spelling. Thus: alle Mal or alle Male (“all times, each time”); beide Mal or beide Male (“both times”). Older spelling, however, had beidemal and allemal for the endingless variants.
Nota bene: The word allemal does still exist in contemporary spelling, but is distinct from alle Mal as above. It is an adverb meaning “at any rate”, and sometimes “always”.
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The plural form Mäler is less common.
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