adverb

Etymology edit

From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) +‎ verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.

Pronunciation edit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɜːb/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.vɝb/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: ad‧verb

Noun edit

adverb (plural adverbs)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Adverb

Wikipedia

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 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 edit

Translations edit

Verb edit

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 edit

• adverbialize

See also edit

• Category:Adverbs by language

Anagrams edit

• Bevard, braved

Etymology edit

ad- +‎ verb

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /ˈad.vɛrp/

Noun edit

adverb m (plural adverboù)

1. (grammar) adverb

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

adverb (genitive adverbi, partitive adverbi)

1. (grammar) adverb

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

• adverb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Etymology edit

From French adverbe.

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /advɛːb/

Noun edit

adverb

1. adverb

Related terms edit

• adverbial

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

adverb

Wikipedia ^no

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)

1. (grammar) an adverb

References edit

• “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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

1. (grammar) an adverb

References edit

• “adverb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /adˈverb/

Noun edit

adverb n (plural adverbe)

1. adverb

Declension edit

Further reading edit

• adverb in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling а̀дверб)

1. adverb

   Synonym: prílog

Declension edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

• IPA^(key): /adˈvɛrːb/, [adˈværːb]

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Noun edit

adverb n

1. adverb

Declension edit

Related terms edit

• adverbial

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

adverb

1. adverb

Inflection edit

References edit

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