adverb
See also: Adverb
English edit
Etymology edit
From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.
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Noun edit
adverb (plural adverbs)
- (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- ‘Fortunately your papa appreciates it; he appreciates it immensely’—that was one of the things Miss Overmore also said, with a striking insistence on the adverb.
- (modifying a verb) I often went outside hiking during my stay in Japan.
- (modifying an adjective) It was often cold outside.
- (modifying another adverb) Not often.
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
Usage notes edit
Adverbs comprise a fundamental category of words in most languages. In English, adverbs are typically formed from adjectives by appending -ly and are used to modify verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, other adverbs, and entire sentences, but rarely nouns or noun phrases.
Hyponyms edit
- (words that modify verbs, etc.): intransitive preposition
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Verb edit
adverb (third-person singular simple present adverbs, present participle adverbing, simple past and past participle adverbed)
- (rare) To make into or become an adverb.
- 1973, Indian Linguistics, volume 34, page 241:
- Considering these postpositional phrases to be adverbed phrases would be an insufficient analysis, since the postpositions are determined by the verb.
- 1998, English linguistics[1]:
- Even if, in the case of native speakers of English in particular, bonded adverbed verbs are always understood and used as entities, the different stages of théir formation are probably those I have just described.
- 2005, John Barth, The Book of Ten Nights and a Night: Eleven Stories[2], page 8:
- Then, post-adverbially, they start over again from Square One, explaining that queer name of hers and who and where she is and what's going on here besides adverbing.
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Noun edit
adverb m (plural adverboù)
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Noun edit
adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)
Declension edit
| Declension of adverb (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | adverb | adverbid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | adverbi | ||
| genitive | adverbide | ||
| partitive | adverbi | adverbe adverbisid | |
| illative | adverbi adverbisse |
adverbidesse adverbesse | |
| inessive | adverbis | adverbides adverbes | |
| elative | adverbist | adverbidest adverbest | |
| allative | adverbile | adverbidele adverbele | |
| adessive | adverbil | adverbidel adverbel | |
| ablative | adverbilt | adverbidelt adverbelt | |
| translative | adverbiks | adverbideks adverbeks | |
| terminative | adverbini | adverbideni | |
| essive | adverbina | adverbidena | |
| abessive | adverbita | adverbideta | |
| comitative | adverbiga | adverbidega | |
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Mauritian Creole edit
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adverb
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
Noun edit
adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb or adverber, definite plural adverba or adverbene)
References edit
- “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
Noun edit
adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb, definite plural adverba)
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- “adverb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), French adverbe.
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Noun edit
adverb n (plural adverbe)
Declension edit
Declension of adverb
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) adverb | adverbul | (niște) adverbe | adverbele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) adverb | adverbului | (unor) adverbe | adverbelor |
| vocative | adverbule | adverbelor | ||
Further reading edit
- adverb in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
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àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”).
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adverb n
Declension edit
| Declension of adverb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | adverb | adverbet | adverb | adverben |
| Genitive | adverbs | adverbets | adverbs | adverbens |
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Etymology edit
Ultimately from Latin adverbium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun edit
adverb
Inflection edit
| Inflection of adverb (inflection type 5/sana) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | adverb | ||
| genitive sing. | adverban | ||
| partitive sing. | adverbad | ||
| partitive plur. | adverboid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | adverb | adverbad | |
| accusative | adverban | adverbad | |
| genitive | adverban | adverboiden | |
| partitive | adverbad | adverboid | |
| essive-instructive | adverban | adverboin | |
| translative | adverbaks | adverboikš | |
| inessive | adverbas | adverboiš | |
| elative | adverbaspäi | adverboišpäi | |
| illative | adverbaha | adverboihe | |
| adessive | adverbal | adverboil | |
| ablative | adverbalpäi | adverboilpäi | |
| allative | adverbale | adverboile | |
| abessive | adverbata | adverboita | |
| comitative | adverbanke | adverboidenke | |
| prolative | adverbadme | adverboidme | |
| approximative I | adverbanno | adverboidenno | |
| approximative II | adverbannoks | adverboidennoks | |
| egressive | adverbannopäi | adverboidennopäi | |
| terminative I | adverbahasai | adverboihesai | |
| terminative II | adverbalesai | adverboilesai | |
| terminative III | adverbassai | — | |
| additive I | adverbahapäi | adverboihepäi | |
| additive II | adverbalepäi | adverboilepäi | |