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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)

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  2. (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.
  3. (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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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.

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Breton

Etymology

ad- +‎ verb

Pronunciation

Noun

adverb m (plural adverboù)

  1. (grammar) adverb

Estonian

Etymology

From Latin adverbium.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)

  1. (grammar, uncommon) adverb
    Synonym: määrsõna

Declension

More information Declension of (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

Compounds

  • ajaadverb
  • hulgaadverb
  • kohaadverb
  • lihtadverb
  • liitadverb
  • viisiadverb

References

  • 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

Etymology

From French adverbe.

Pronunciation

Noun

adverb

  1. adverb

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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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) 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)

  1. (grammar) an adverb

References

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

adverb n (plural adverbe)

  1. adverb

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

àdverb m inan (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)

  1. adverb
    Synonym: prílog

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • “adverb”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
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Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

adverb n

  1. adverb

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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

More information Inflection of (inflection type 5/sana), nominative sing. ...

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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