adverb

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English

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Etymology

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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

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

Noun

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adverb (plural adverbs)

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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  2. (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.
  3. (programming) In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.

Usage notes

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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

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Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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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.

Synonyms

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See also

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Anagrams

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Breton

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Etymology

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ad- +‎ verb

Pronunciation

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Noun

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adverb m (plural adverboù)

  1. (grammar) adverb

Estonian

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Etymology

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From Latin adverbium.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑd̥ˈverb̥/, [ɑd̥ˈverb̥]
  • Rhymes: -erb
  • Hyphenation: ad‧verb

Noun

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adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)

  1. (grammar, uncommon) adverb
    Synonym: määrsõna

Declension

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Declension of adverb (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative adverb adverbid
accusative nom.
gen. adverbi
genitive 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

Derived terms

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Compounds

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References

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  • adverb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “adverb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From French adverbe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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adverb

  1. adverb
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. (grammar) an adverb

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. (grammar) an adverb

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Romanian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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adverb n (plural adverbe)

  1. adverb

Declension

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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

Further reading

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)

  1. adverb
    Synonym: prílog

Declension

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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

Swedish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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adverb n

  1. adverb

Declension

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Declension of adverb
nominative genitive
singular indefinite adverb adverbs
definite adverbet adverbets
plural indefinite adverb adverbs
definite adverben adverbens
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Veps

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin adverbium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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adverb

  1. adverb

Inflection

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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

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “наречие”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
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