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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- (words that modify verbs, etc.): intransitive preposition
Derived terms
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Verb
[edit]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.
Synonyms
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[edit]Breton
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[edit]Noun
[edit]adverb m (plural adverboù)
Estonian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)
Declension
[edit]| 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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[edit]References
[edit]- adverb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “adverb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Mauritian Creole
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[edit]Noun
[edit]adverb
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[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
Noun
[edit]adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb or adverber, definite plural adverba or adverbene)
References
[edit]- “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
Noun
[edit]adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb, definite plural adverba)
References
[edit]- “adverb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”), French adverbe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adverb n (plural adverbe)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | adverb | adverbul | adverbe | adverbele | |
| genitive-dative | adverb | adverbului | adverbe | adverbelor | |
| vocative | adverbule | adverbelor | |||
Further reading
[edit]- adverb in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word, verb”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)
Declension
[edit]Declension of adverb
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]adverb n
Declension
[edit]Declension of adverb
Related terms
[edit]Veps
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Latin adverbium. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
[edit]adverb
Inflection
[edit]| 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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