adverb

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/

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• 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.

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.

See also

• Category:Adverbs by language

Anagrams

• Bevard, braved

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

• “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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.

Etymology

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

Noun

adverb n (plural adverbe)

1. adverb

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

Etymology

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

Noun

adverb n

1. adverb

Noun

adverb

1. adverb

References

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