adverb
See also: Adverb
English
Etymology
From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
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Usage notes
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
- (words that modifies verbs, etc): intransitive preposition
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun adverb
- adverbial (adverbially)
- conjunctive adverb
- locative adverb
- manner adverb
- modal adverb
Translations
lexical category
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Verb
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.
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Synonyms
See also
- Category:Adverbs by language
Mauritian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /advɛːb/
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Romanian
Declension
declension of adverb
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎdʋerb/
- Hyphenation: ad‧verb
Declension
Swedish
Veps
Etymology
Inflection
Inflection of adverb | |||
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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 | ? | 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 | ? | adverboihesai | |
terminative II | adverbalesai | adverboilesai | |
terminative III | adverbassai | — | |
additive I | ? | adverboihepäi | |
additive II | adverbalepäi | adverboilepäi |
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “наречие”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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