Adverb

erstmal

Translation

first of all, for now, for the time being

Ich muss erstmal meine E-Mails checken.

I have to check my emails first.

Lass uns erstmal einen Kaffee trinken.

Let's have a coffee first.

Das reicht erstmal.

That's enough for now.

((temporal)) first, for now Ich gehe erstmal duschen.

zuerst, zunächst

A colloquial contraction of 'erst einmal' (literally 'first one time').

Think of it as 'first things first'. It's very common in spoken German to prioritize an action before moving on to the next.