Adverb

Definitions: Adverb

Adverb

Noun

1. The word class that qualifies verbs or clauses.

2. A word that modifies something other than a noun.

Date "adverb" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Etymology: Adverb \Ad"verb\, noun. [Latin expression adverbium; ad verbum word, verb: compare to the French expression adverbe.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Adverb

English words defined with "adverb": adverbial, Adverbialize, adverbially, All and some, All to ♦ brotherly ♦ compare, Contra ♦ dependent, dependent clause ♦ exocentric ♦ Genitival ♦ later ♦ much ♦ Parelcon, Positive degree, practically ♦ Soever, split infinitive, subordinate, subordinate clause ♦ Un-. (references)

Specialty definitions using "adverb": Adjective or Adverb, Adverbs, Ain't ♦ Beautiful, Beautifully, Behave ♦ Firstly, First-rate ♦ Ill, Illy ♦ Plentiful, Plenty ♦ Quite ♦ So, Such. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Adverb" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (adverb), Romanian (adverb), Swedish (adverb).

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Specialty Definition: Adverb

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

An adverb is a part of speech that normally serves to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, clauses, and sentences.

In English, adverbs often have the suffix -ly, but so do many adjectives. The -ly is a common, but not reliable marker of an adverb.

Some others use the suffix -wise. It competed with a related form -ways and won out against it. In a few words, like sideways, -ways survives; words like crosswise show the transition .

Some other adverbs are identical in form to their adjectives. Otherwise, other adverbs are derived from adjectives.

The comparative and superlative forms of adverbs that are identical to their adjectives are generated by adding -er and -est. The comparative and superlative forms of most other adverbs (except in poetic forms like wiselier) use more or most. Adverbs also take comparisons with as ... as, less, and least.
The usual form pertaining to adjectives or adverbs is called the positive. Thus the three grades are positive "happy", comparative "happier", and superlative "happiest".

Other languages may form adverbs in different ways, if they are used at all:

In German, adverbs do not have a distinct form from adjectives.
Romance languages form adverbs by adding -mente (Spanish, etc) or -ment (French).
In Esperanto, adverbs are not formed from adjectives but are made by adding -e directly to the word root. Thus, from bon are derived bone, "well", and bona, "good".
Austronesian languages appear to form comparative adverbs by repeating the root (as in Wiki-Wiki), similarly to the plural noun.

Examples

The following examples are in English, because that is the language of this text. Examples in other languages may be added, especially to show language independent properties of adverbs.

(1) In the following examples, the adverb, as a verb-modifier, is highlighted in bold. The verb that it modifies is shown in italics.

It is tiring to run quickly.
My sister laughs loudly.
The sun shone brightly.
The captain went boldly.
The farmer worked hard. (NB: Not hardly)
The minister spoke well. (NB: Not goodly)

(2) In the following examples, the adverb, as an adjective-modifier, is highlighted in bold. The adjective it modifies is shown in italics.

His poetry is very beautiful.
The meaning of this passage is abundantly clear.
That sign is hardly visible.

(3) In the following examples, the adverb, as an adverb-modifier, is highlighted in bold. The adverb that it modifies is shown in italics.

I know that he can write more clearly.
The sun came out quite suddenly.
This species is the slightly slower growing one.

(4) In the following examples the adverb modifies a whole sentence.

Finally, she went home.
Suddenly, the cat came in.
Today, we can go on a day trip.

The hopefully controversy is based on the theory that people should say I am hopeful that... instead of hopefully to start and modify a sentence. Yet, there are dozens of adverbs used in this way. Obviously this rule is illogical. So, *Hopefully, grammarians won't trash hopefully as a sentence adverb anymore.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Adverb."

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Commercial Usage: Adverb

Domain	Title
Books	"Den dyrkade Lasse och stackars lilla Lotta" : en syntaktisk-semantisk studie av personbeskrivande adjektiv och adverb i populèara ungdomsbèocker (reference) Acquisition of the Syntactic Category Adverb Evidence from the Second Language Learners Written Use of English Adverbs (Acquisition, 87304) (reference) Adverb Placement: A Case Study in Antisymmetric Syntax (Linguistic Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 18) (reference) Adverb und Sprachstil : Untersuchungen zur stilistischen Differenziertheit, insbesondere im lexikalischen Bereich (reference) Fr�an adverb till markèor i text : studier i semantisk-syntatisk utveckling i èaldre svenska (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Adverb

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	Our school-marm creates an adverb.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Adverb

"Adverb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.46% of the time. "Adverb" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.46%	64	42,009
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.54%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	65	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Adverb

Expressions using "adverb": adverb of manner ♦ adverb of place ♦ temporal adverb. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adverb

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
adverb	279
adverb clause	22
adjective and adverb	19
adverb frequency	16
adverb list	15
adverb conjunctive	14
adverb list word	7
adverb example	7
adverb lesson plan	6
adverb grammar	6
adverb worksheets	5
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adverb kind	5
spanish adverb	4
adverb phrase	4
adverb grammar quantity	4
adverb definition	4
adverb quantity	3
adverb relative	3
adverb quiz	3
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Modern Translations: Adverb

Language		Translations for "adverb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bywoord. (various references)

Albanian		ndajfolje. (various references)

Arabic		‏حال (circumstance, condition, situation, solvent), ‏ظرف حال (juncture). (various references)

Basque		adberbio. (various references)

Bulgarian		обстоятелствена дума (adverbial), наречие. (various references)

Chinese		副詞 , 副词 (ADV). (various references)

Czech		adverbium, příslovce. (various references)

Danish		adverbium. (various references)

Dutch		adverbium, bijwoord. (various references)

Esperanto		adverbo. (various references)

Faeroese		hjáorð. (various references)

Farsi		معین فعل , قیدی (Adverbial), قید (Assurance, Bind, Bridle, Clog, Constraint, Encumbrance, Hamper, Manacle, Proviso, Qualification, Reservation, Rocker, Shackle, Tie), عبارت قیدی , ظرف (Can, Container, Dish, Receptacle, Repository, Vase, Vessel). (various references)

Finnish		adverbi. (various references)

French		adverbe. (various references)

Frisian		bywurd. (various references)

German		Umstandswort, Adverb (adv.). (various references)

Greek		επίρρημα. (various references)

Hebrew		תואר �"פועל. (various references)

Hungarian		adverbium, határozószó. (various references)

Indonesian		adverbia, kata keteragan (adjunct, adv). (various references)

Italian		avverbio (adv.). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		副詞 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふくし (deputy delegate, double vision, polyopia, vice-envoy, welfare, well-being). (various references)

Korean		부사 (Adverbial). (various references)

Manx		rovreear. (various references)

Occitan		advèrbi. (various references)

Papiamen		atverbio. (various references)

Pig Latin		adverbay

Portuguese		advérbio (adverbial). (various references)

Romanian		adverb. (various references)

Russian		наречие (диал., dialect). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prilog (contribution, enclosure, inclosure, inset, side dish). (various references)

Spanish		adverbio. (various references)

Swedish		adverb. (various references)

Turkish		zarf (adverbial, calyx, cartridge, cover, envelope, receptacle, sheath, shuck). (various references)

Turkmen		ahwalet. (various references)

Ukranian		прислівник. (various references)

Welsh		adferf, rhagferf. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Adverb

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adverbium. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Adverb

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adverb": adverbial, adverbially, adverbials, adverbs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adverb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abverb, addeb, adiver, adve, adveb, adver, adverbe, advers, Adyebo, aveb, Oddvar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Adverb"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adverb" (pronounced a"dverb)
3	-v er b	proverb.
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Anagrams: Adverb

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: braved.
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-r-v"
	-1 letter: ardeb, barde, bared, beard, brave, bread, debar, drave, raved.
	-2 letters: abed, aver, bade, bard, bare, bead, bear, brad, brae, bred, darb, dare, dear, deva, drab, rave, read, vera, verb.
	-3 letters: arb, are, ave, bad, bar, bed, bra, dab, deb, dev, ear, era, rad, reb, red, rev, var.
	-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, ar, ba, be, de, ed, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-r-v"
	+1 letter: adverbs, bravoed.
	+2 letters: beavered, bereaved, deverbal, drivable, vibrated.
	+3 letters: adverbial, boulevard, bravadoes, cabdriver, derivable, driveable, outbraved, overbaked, overboard, overbroad.
	+4 letters: aboveboard, adverbials, boulevards, cabdrivers, verbalized, weaverbird.
	+5 letters: abbreviated, aboveground, adumbrative, adverbially, beaverboard, curveballed, deliverable, deverbative, disprovable, overlabored, weaverbirds.
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