adverb

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈadvəːb/
• IPA: /ˈædvəɹb/

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Noun

adverb (plural adverbs)

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.

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 not nouns or noun phrases.

Derived terms

• adverbial
• adverbially
• conjunctive adverb
• pronominal adverb

Translations

lexical category

• Afrikaans: bywoord (af)
• Aghu: please add this translation if you can
• Ainu: please add this translation if you can
• Akan: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: ndajfolje (sq) f
• Arabic: ظرف (ar) (ẓarf) m
• Aragonese: adverbio (an) m
• Aramaic: עלמלתא (ʿalmélta) m
• Armenian: մակբայ (hy) (makbay) 
• Asturian: alverbiu (ast) m
• Aymara: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: zərf (az)
• Bashkir: рәүеш (ba) (räweš) 
• Basque: adizlagun (eu), adberbio (eu)
• Belarusian: прыслоўе (be) (pryslóŭje) n 
• Bengali: ক্রিয়া-বিশেষণ (bn) (kriya-bisheshan)
• Breton: adverb (br)
• Bulgarian: наречие (bg) (naréčie) n 
• Burmese: ကြိယာဝိသေသန (my) (ka̱ ri. ja wi. thei tha̱na.)
• Catalan: adverbi (ca) m
• Chechen: куцдош (kucdoš)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 副詞, 副词 (fu3 ci4)

  Mandarin: 副詞 (cmn), 副词 (cmn) (fùcí)

  Min Nan: 副詞 (nan), 副词 (nan) (hù-sû)

• Chuvash: наречи
• Crimean Tatar: zarf
• Czech: příslovce (cs) n
• Danish: adverbium (da), biord (da)
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: bijwoord (nl) n
• Esperanto: adverbo (eo)
• Estonian: määrsõna (et), adverb (et)
• Ewe: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: hjáorð (fo) n
• Finnish: adverbi (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: adverbe (fr) m
• Friulian: avierb
• Galician: adverbio (gl) m
• Georgian: ზმნიზედა (ka) (zmnizeda) 
• German: Adverb (de) n, Umstandswort (de) n
• Greek: επίρρημα (el) (epírrima) n 

  Ancient Greek: ἐπίρρημα (epírrhēma) n

• Gujarati: ક્રિયાવિશેષણ (gu) (kriyāviśeṣaṇ)
• Hebrew: תואר הפועל (he) (toar ha'pô'al)
• Hindi: क्रियाविशेषण (hi) (kriyāviśeṣaṇ) f
• Hungarian: határozószó (hu)
• Icelandic: atviksorð (is) n
• Ido: adverbo (io)
• Indonesian: adverbia (id)
• Interlingua: adverbio (ia)
• Interlingue: adverbie (ie)
• Irish: dobhriathar (ga) m
• Italian: avverbio (it) m
• Japanese: 副詞 (ja) (ふくし, fukushi)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Jèrriais: advèrbe m
• Kazakh: шылау (kk) (şılaw) , үстеу (kk) (üstew) 
• Khmer: គុណកិរិយា (km) (kun keriyaa), កិរិយាសព្ទវិសេសន៍ (km) (keriyaa sap viseh)

• Korean: 부사 (ko) (busa) (副詞 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: тактооч (ky) (taktooç) 
• Lao: ຄຳກິຣິຍາວິເສດ (lo) (kám kí rī ɲáː wī sȅːt), ວິເສດ (lo) (wī sȅːt)
• Latin: adverbium (la) n
• Latvian: apstākļa vārds (lv) m
• Limburgish: biewaord (li) n
• Lingala: lilandi (ln)
• Lithuanian: prieveiksmis (lt)
• Macedonian: прилог (mk) (prílog) m
• Malay: adverba (ms)
• Malayalam: ക്രിയാവിശേഷണം (ml) (kriyāviśeṣṇaṁ)
• Maltese: avverbju (mt)
• Marathi: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: дайвар үг (mn) (dajvar üg) 
• Nahuatl: cauhtic (nah)
• Newari: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Sami: advearba
• Norwegian: adverb (no) n

  Nynorsk: adverb (nn)

• Novial: adverbie
• Occitan: advèrbi (oc) m
• Old English: bīword (ang) n
• Oriya: କ୍ରିୟା ବିଶେଷଣ (or)
• Persian: قید (fa) (qeyd), ظرف (fa) (zarf)
• Polish: przysłówek (pl) m
• Portuguese: advérbio (pt) m
• Quechua: hinarimana (qu)
• Romanian: adverb (ro) n
• Russian: наречие (ru) (naréčije) n 
• Scots: adverb
• Scottish Gaelic: co-ghnìomhair (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: при́лог (sh) m, адверб (sh) m

  Roman: prílog (sh) m, adverb (sh) m

• Sicilian: avverbiu (scn) m
• Sinhalese: ක්‍රියා විශේෂණය (si)
• Slovak: príslovka (sk) f
• Slovene: prislov (sl) m
• Spanish: adverbio (es) m
• Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: kielezi (sw), kisifa (sw)
• Swati: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: adverb (sv) n
• Tagalog: pang-abay (tl)
• Tajik: зарф (tg) (zarf) 
• Tamil: வினையுரிச்சொல் (ta) (viṉaiyuriccol)
• Tatar: рәвеш (tt) (räveş)
• Telugu: క్రియా విశేషణము (kriyaa viseshanamu)
• Thai: วิเศษณ์ (th) (wísèt)
• Turkish: belirteç (tr), zarf (tr)
• Turkmen: ahwalet (tk), hal (tk)
• Ukrainian: прислівник (uk) (pryslívnyk) m 
• Uzbek: hol (uz)
• Vietnamese: trạng từ (vi), phó từ (vi) (副詞 (vi))
• Volapük: ladvärb (vo), (obsolete) ladvelib (vo)
• West Frisian: bywurd (fy) n
• Yiddish: אדווערב (yi) (adverb) m
• Zazaki: please add this translation if you can
• Zulu: isandiso (zu) 7/8

See also

• Category:Adverbs by language

Anagrams

• braved

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Norwegian

Noun

adverb

1. adverb

Inflection

    Inflection of adverb

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål n	adverb	adverbt	adverb/adverbr	a/adverbne
Nynorsk n	adverb	adverbet	adverb	adverba [adverbi]

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”), French adverbe.

Noun

adverb n (plural adverbe)

1. adverb

Declension

declension of adverb

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un adverb	adverbul	niște adverbe	adverbele
genitive/dative	unui adverb	adverbului	unor adverbe	adverbelor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ǎdʋerb/
• Hyphenation: ad‧verb

Noun

àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)

1. (Croatia, rare) adverb

Declension

    declension of adverb

	singular	plural
nominative	adverb	adverbi
genitive	adverba	àdvērbā
dative	adverbu	adverbima
accusative	adverb	adverbe
vocative	adverbe	adverbi
locative	adverbu	adverbima
instrumental	adverbom	adverbima

Synonyms

• prílog

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”).

Noun

adverb n

1. adverb

Declension

Declension of adverb

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	adverb	adverbet	adverb	adverben
genitive	adverbs	adverbets	adverbs	adverbens

Related terms

• adverbial