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

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

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.
  2. (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.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

adverb (third-person singular simple present adverbs, present participle adverbing, simple past and past participle adverbed)

  1. (rare) To make into or become an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
    • 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

  • Category:Adverbs by language

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

ad- + verb

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈad.vɛrp/

Noun

adverb m (plural adverboù)

  1. (grammar) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)

  1. (grammar) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Further reading

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French adverbe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /advɛːb/

Noun

adverb

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. (grammar) an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. (grammar) an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adˈverb/

Noun

adverb n (plural adverbe)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    Synonym: prílog

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adverb n

  1. adverb

Declension

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

adverb

  1. adverb

Inflection

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

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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