adverb
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
NounEdit
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 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.
HyponymsEdit
- (words that modify verbs, etc.): intransitive preposition
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
lexical category
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VerbEdit
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.
SynonymsEdit
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BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
adverb m (plural adverboù)
EstonianEdit
NounEdit
adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of adverb (type riik)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | adverb | adverbid |
| genitive | adverbi | 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 |
Further readingEdit
Mauritian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
adverb
Related termsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
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)
ReferencesEdit
- “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
NounEdit
adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb, definite plural adverba)
ReferencesEdit
- “adverb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), French adverbe.
NounEdit
adverb n (plural adverbe)
DeclensionEdit
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 | ||
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of adverb
SynonymsEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
adverb n
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of adverb | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | adverb | adverbet | adverb | adverben |
| Genitive | adverbs | adverbets | adverbs | adverbens |
Related termsEdit
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
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