See also: Adverb

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (to) +‎ verbum (word, verb), so called because it is used to supplement other words.

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɜːb/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈæd.vɝb/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ad‧verb

NounEdit

adverb (plural adverbs)

 
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  1. (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.
  2. (programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.

Usage notesEdit

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.

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VerbEdit

adverb (third-person singular simple present adverbs, present participle adverbing, simple past and past participle adverbed)

  1. (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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BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

ad- +‎ verb

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

adverb m (plural adverboù)

  1. (grammar) adverb

EstonianEdit

NounEdit

adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)

  1. (grammar) adverb

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

Mauritian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French adverbe.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

adverb

  1. adverb

Related termsEdit

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (to) +‎ verbum (word, verb).

NounEdit

adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb or adverber, definite plural adverba or adverbene)

  1. (grammar) an adverb

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (to) +‎ verbum (word, verb).

NounEdit

adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb, definite plural adverba)

  1. (grammar) an adverb

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (to) +‎ verbum (word, verb), French adverbe.

NounEdit

adverb n (plural adverbe)

  1. adverb

DeclensionEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (to) +‎ verbum (word, verb).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ǎdʋerb/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧verb

NounEdit

àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)

  1. adverb

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (to) + verbum (word).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /adˈvɛrːb/, [adˈværːb]
  • (file)

NounEdit

adverb n

  1. adverb

DeclensionEdit

Declension of adverb 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative adverb adverbet adverb adverben
Genitive adverbs adverbets adverbs adverbens

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EtymologyEdit

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NounEdit

adverb

  1. adverb

InflectionEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “наречие”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika