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English
Etymology
From French adverbe , from Latin adverbium , from ad- ( “ to ” ) + verbum ( “ word, verb ” ) , so called because it is used to supplement other words. By surface analysis , ad- + verb .
Pronunciation
Noun
adverb (plural adverbs )
( grammar ) A word that modifies a verb , adjective , other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases , or clauses .
1844 , E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar , 6th edition, Boston, page 91 :322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs , prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
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
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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Translations
lexical category
Afrikaans: bywoord (af)
Albanian: ndajfolje (sq) f
Amharic: ተውሳከ ግስ ( täwsakä gəs )
Arabic: ظَرْف m ( ẓarf )
Aragonese: alberbio (an) m
Aramaic: עלמלתא m ( ʿalmélta )
Armenian: մակբայ (hy) ( makbay )
Asturian: alverbiu (ast) m
Aymara: mayjachiri (ay)
Azerbaijani: zərf (az)
Bashkir: рәүеш ( rəweş )
Basque: adizlagun , adberbio
Belarusian: прысло́ўе n ( pryslóŭje )
Bengali: ক্রিয়া-বিশেষণ ( kriẏa-biśeśon )
Breton: adverb (br)
Bulgarian: наре́чие (bg) n ( naréčie )
Burmese: ကြိယာဝိသေသန (my) ( kri.yawi.sesa.na. )
Catalan: adverbi (ca) m
Chechen: куцдош ( kucdoš )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 副詞 / 副词 ( fu3 ci4 )
Hokkien: 副詞 / 副词 ( hù-sû )
Mandarin: 副詞 / 副词 (zh) ( fùcí )
Chuvash: наречи ( nareč̬i ) , ӗҫхӗлтеш ( ĕśhĕlt̬eš )
Cornish: adverb m
Crimean Tatar: zarf
Czech: příslovce (cs) n
Danish: adverbium (da) , biord
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: bijwoord (nl) n
Erzya: малавал ( malaval )
Esperanto: adverbo (eo)
Estonian: määrsõna , adverb (et)
Ewe: please add this translation if you can
Faroese: hjáorð (fo) n
Finnish: adverbi (fi) , seikkasana (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 , Nebenwort n , Zuwort n , dated: Adverbium (de) n , dated, rare: Zeitnebenwort n
Middle High German: zūwort
Middle High German / Early New High German: zuwort
Greek: επίρρημα (el) n ( epírrima )
Ancient: ἐπίρρημα n ( epírrhēma )
Gujarati: ક્રિયાવિશેષણ ( kriyāviśeṣaṇ )
Hebrew: תֹּאַר הַפֹּעַל \ תואר הפועל (he) ( toar ha'pó'al )
Hindi: क्रियाविशेषण m ( kriyāviśeṣaṇ )
Hungarian: határozószó (hu)
Icelandic: atviksorð (is) n
Ido: adverbo (io)
Indonesian: adverbia (id)
Interlingua: adverbio (ia)
Irish: dobhriathar (ga) m
Italian: avverbio (it) m
Japanese: 副詞 (ja) ( ふくし, fukushi )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kannada: ಕ್ರಿಯಾವಿಶೇಷಣ ( kriyāviśēṣaṇa )
Kapampangan: panantabe
Kashubian: przësłówk m
Kazakh: шылау ( şylau ) , үстеу ( üsteu )
Khmer: គុណកិរិយា (km) ( kunaʼ keriyaa ) , កិរិយាវិសេសន៍ (km) ( keriyaa visaeh )
Korean: 부사(副詞) (ko) ( busa )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hoker (ku)
Kyrgyz: тактооч (ky) ( taktooc )
Lao: ຄຳກິຣິຍາວິເສດ ( kham ki ri nyā wi sēt ) , ວິເສດ ( wi sēt )
Latin: adverbium (la) n
Latvian: apstākļa vārds (lv) m , adverbs (lv) m
Limburgish: biewaord (li) n
Lingala: lilandi
Lithuanian: prieveiksmis (lt) m
Macedonian: прилог m ( prilog )
Malay: adverba (ms)
Malayalam: ക്രിയാവിശേഷണം (ml) ( kriyāviśēṣaṇaṁ )
Maltese: avverbju (mt)
Manx: please add this translation if you can
Maori: kupu tūkē , tūkē , tūmahi āhua , tūwā ( of words that refer to time ) , kupumahi āhua , tūmahi āhua
Marathi: क्रियाविषेशण ( kriyāviṣeśaṇ )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: наречий ( narečij )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дайвар үг ( dajvar üg )
Nahuatl: cauhtic (nah)
Newar: please add this translation if you can
Norman: advèrbe m ( Jersey )
Northern Sami: advearba
Norwegian:
Bokmål: adverb (no) n
Nynorsk: adverb (nn) n , utfyllingsord n
Occitan: advèrbi (oc) m
Odia: କ୍ରିୟା ବିଶେଷଣ ( kriyā biśeshaṇa )
Old English: bīword n
Ossetian: фӕрсдзырд ( færsʒyrd )
Pali: kiriyāvisesana
Pashto: قيد (ps) m ( qayd )
Persian:
Dari: قَیْد ( qayd ) , ظَرْف ( zarf )
Iranian Persian: قِیْد ( ğeyd ) , ظَرْف ( zarf )
Plautdietsch: Adwerb n , Omstauntswuat n
Polish: przysłówek (pl) m inan , adverbium (pl) n , adwerbium n
Portuguese: advérbio (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕਿਰਿਆ-ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ਣ ( kiriā-viśeśaṇ )
Quechua: hinarimana
Romanian: adverb (ro) n
Russian: наре́чие (ru) n ( naréčije )
Sanskrit: क्रियाविशेषण (sa) n ( kriyāviśeṣaṇa )
Scots: adverb
Scottish Gaelic: co-ghnìomhair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: при́лог m , а̀дверб m
Roman: prílog (sh) m , àdverb (sh) m
Sicilian: avverbiu (scn) m
Sinhalese: ක්රියා විශේෂණය ( kriyā wiśēṣaṇaya )
Slovak: príslovka (sk) f
Slovene: prislov (sl) m
Spanish: adverbio (es) m
Sundanese: please add this translation if you can
Swahili: kielezi (sw) , kisifa
Swazi: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: adverb (sv) n
Tagalog: pang-abay (tl)
Tajik: зарф (tg) ( zarf ) , қайд ( qayd )
Tamil: வினையுரிச்சொல் (ta) ( viṉaiyuriccol )
Tatar: рәвеш (tt) ( räweş )
Telugu: క్రియా విశేషణము ( kriyā viśēṣaṇamu )
Thai: กริยาวิเศษณ์ (th) ( grì-yaa-wí-sèet ) , วิเศษณ์ (th) ( wí-sèet )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Tulu: ಕ್ರಿಯಾವಿಶೇಷಣ ( kriyāviśēṣaṇa )
Turkish: belirteç (tr) , zarf (tr)
Turkmen: ahwalet , hal (tk)
Ukrainian: прислі́вник (uk) m ( pryslívnyk )
Urdu: مُتَعَلِّقِ فِعْل m ( muta'alliq-i fi'l ) , تابِعِ فِعْل m ( tābi'-i fi'l )
Uyghur: ھالەت ( halet ) , رەۋىش ( rewish )
Uzbek: hol (uz) , ravish (uz)
Vietnamese: trạng từ (vi) , phó từ (vi) (副詞 )
Volapük: ladvärb (vo) , ( obsolete ) ladvelib
Welsh: adferf (cy) f
West Frisian: bywurd (fy) n
Yiddish: אַדווערב (yi) m ( adverb )
Zazaki: zerf
Zulu: isandiso class 7 /8
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.
1998 , English linguistics :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 , 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 .
Synonyms
See also
Anagrams
Breton
Etymology
ad- + verb
Pronunciation
Noun
adverb m (plural adverboù )
( grammar ) adverb
Estonian
Etymology
From Latin adverbium .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ɑd̥ˈverb̥/ ,
Rhymes: -erb
Hyphenation: ad‧verb
Noun
adverb (genitive adverbi , partitive adverbi )
( grammar , uncommon ) adverb
Synonym: määrsõna
Declension
Derived terms
Compounds
References
adverb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
“adverb ”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language ] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French adverbe .
Pronunciation
Noun
adverb
adverb
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin adverbium , from ad- ( “ to ” ) + verbum ( “ word, verb ” ) .
Noun
adverb n (definite singular adverbet , indefinite plural adverb or adverber , definite plural adverba or adverbene )
( grammar ) an adverb
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin adverbium , from ad- ( “ to ” ) + verbum ( “ word, verb ” ) .
Noun
adverb n (definite singular adverbet , indefinite plural adverb , definite plural adverba )
( grammar ) an adverb
References
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin adverbium , from ad- ( “ to ” ) + verbum ( “ word, verb ” ) , French adverbe .
Pronunciation
Noun
adverb n (plural adverbe )
adverb
Declension
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Latin adverbium , from ad- ( “ to ” ) + verbum ( “ word, verb ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ǎdʋerb/
Hyphenation: ad‧verb
Noun
àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб )
adverb
Synonym: prílog
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin adverbium , from ad- ( “ to ” ) + verbum ( “ word ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
adverb n
adverb
Declension
Veps
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin adverbium . This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
adverb
adverb
Inflection
References
Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007 ) “наречие ”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary ] , Petrozavodsk: Periodika