German

Noun

Adverb n ‎(genitive Adverbs, plural Adverbien)

1. (grammar) adverb

Declension

• The genitive singular is also (des) Adverbes and the dative singular is also (dem) Adverbe though these forms are uncommon nowadays.

Usage notes

The standard plural of Adverb is Adverbien. The plural forms Adverbe (dated; cf. Adjektiv and its plural Adjektive) and Adverben (cf. Verb and its plural Verben) have never been common.

Synonyms

• Umstandswort, Nebenwort, Zuwort
• Adverbium

Hyponyms

• Affirmationsadverb, Durativadverb, Finaladverb, Frequenzadverb (Frequentativadverb, Häufigkeitsadverb), Gradadverb, Instrumentaladverb, Intensitätsadverb, Interrogativadverb (Frageadverb), Kausaladverb, Kommentaradverb (Modalitätsadverb, Satzadverb, Urteilsadverb), Konditionaladverb, Konsekutivadverb, Konzessivadverb, Modaladverb, Negationsadverb (Verneinungsadverb), Quantitätsadverb, Situierungsadverb, Temporaladverb (Zeitadverb)
• Lokaladverb (Ortsadverb)
  • Direktionaladverb (Richtungsadverb), Herkunftsadverb
• Komparationsadverb, Komparativadverb, Superlativadverb
• Konjunktionaladverb, Pro-Adverb (Präpositionaladverb, Pronominaladverb), Relativadverb

Luxembourgish

Noun

Adverb n ‎(plural Adverben)

1. (grammar) adverb

English

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.

Hyponyms

• (words that modifies verbs, etc): intransitive preposition

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 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

• adverbialize

Anagrams

• braved

See also

• Category:Adverbs by language

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)

1. (grammar) adverb

References

• “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. (grammar) an adverb

References

• “adverb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

adverb n ‎(plural adverbe)

1. adverb

Declension

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. adverb

Declension

Synonyms

• prílog

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

adverb n

1. adverb

Declension

Related terms

• adverbial

Veps

Noun

adverb

1. 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