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Adverbes Flashcards

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What are adverbs

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An adverb is a word that is used to change, modify or qualify several types of words including an adjective, a verb, a clause, another adverb.

A good way to understand adverbs is to think about them as the words that provide context. Specifically, adverbs provide a description of how, where, when, in what manner and to what extent something is done or happens. Normally, we can spot an adverb by the fact that it often ends in –ly, but there are lots of adverbs that don’t end in this way. Moreover, adverbs can be used in many combinations with each other.

  • They walk quickly
  • The pupil reads quite easily
  • She’s very hardworking
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Rather, enough

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Assez (de)

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Also

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Aussi

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A lot of

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Beaucoup de

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Still, yet

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Encore

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Generally

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En général

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Always

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Toujours

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Very

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Très

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Fairly, rather

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Assez

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Enough

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Assez de

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And

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Et

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Here

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Ici

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Today

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Aujourd’hui

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Over there

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Là-bas

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Also

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Aussi

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Now

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Maintenant

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Much, many, a lot

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Beaucoup (de)

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But

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Mais

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Very well

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Bien

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Or

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Ou

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Therefore, so

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Donc

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Sometimes

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Parfois

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Hardly, not

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Peu

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Often

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Souvent

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Plutôt

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Rather

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Always

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Toujours

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Sometimes

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Quelquefois

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Rarely

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Rarement

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Too, too much

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Trop (de)

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If

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Si

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A little

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Un peu (de)

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Badly

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Mal

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Fast, quickly

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Vite

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Adverbs usually follow _____, coming after ____ in negative construction.s

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Adverbs usually follow verbs, coming after pas in negative constructions

*Claude n’est pas très actif, et il mange beaucoup. (Claude is not very active and he eats a lot)

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When adverbs modify adjectives they are in front or behind adjective?

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When adverbs modify adjectives they usually precede them.

*Il est trop gros (He is too fat)

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Where is the adverb if it modifies the entire sentence or in verb+verb construction?

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Adverbs that modify an entire sentence may be placed at the beginning of the sentence. In verb 􏰃 verb constructions, the French adverb usually follows the verb that it modifies.

*Heureusement, Claude va bientôt commencer à suivre un régime. (Luckily, Claude is soon going to start a diet.)

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Adverbs regarding time and space are placed where in the sentence?

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Adverbs of time and place are usually placed at the beginning or end of a sentence.

*Ils vont passer nous voir demain. (They’re going to come by to see us tomorrow)

*Demain, ils vont passer nous voir. (Tomorrow, they’re going to come by to see us)

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How are a number of adverbs formed from adjectives?

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A number of adverbs are formed from adjectives by adding the ending -ment, often corresponding to -ly in English.

  • If the masculine form of the adjective ends in a vowel, -ment is usually added to the masculine form of the adjective to make the adverb.
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Absolute

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Absolu

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Absolutely

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Absolument

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Admirable

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Admirably

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Admirablement

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True

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truly, really

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Vraiment

*Fait-elle vraiment la cuisine tous les soirs? (Does she really do the cooking every evening?)

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If the masculine form of the adverb ends in a constant , what is usually added to the adverb?

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If the masculine form of the adjective ends in a consonant, -ment is usu- ally added to the feminine form to make the adverb.

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Active (m and f)

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Actif (m) and active (f)

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Actively

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Activement

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Soft, gentle (m and f)

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Doux (m) and douce (f)

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Softly, gently

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False (m,f)

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Faux (m) and fausse (f)

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Falsely

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Faussement

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Frank (m,f)

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Franc (m) and franche (f)

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Frankly

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Franchement

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Happy (m,f)

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Heureux (m) and heureuse (f)

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Fortunately, happily

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Heureusement

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Slow (m,f)

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Lent (m) and lente (f)

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Slowly

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Brief (m,f)

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Bref (m) and brève (f)

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Briefly

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Brièvement

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Nice, polite

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Gentil (m) and gentille (f)

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Nicely

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If the masculine form of the adjective ends in ____ or ____, the corresponding adverbs have the endings _____ and _____.

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If the masculine form of the adjective ends in -ent or -ant, the corre- sponding adverbs have the endings -emment (for -ent) and -amment (for -ant).

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Constant (masculine adjective)

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Constantly (masculine adverbs)

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Constamment

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Different (masculine adjective)

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Différent

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Differently (masculine adverbs)

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Différenment

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Evident (masculine adjective)

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Evidently, obviously (masculine adverb)

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Évidemment

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To the right

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To the left

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In back, behind

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À l’arrière

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Outside

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À l’extérieur

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Inside

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À l’intérieur

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At the back, bottom

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Early (morning)

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De bonne heure

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Outside

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already

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In front, forward

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Downstairs, down

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Right now

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En ce moment

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Upstairs, up

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Still, yet

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Here

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There, over there

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Là, là-bas

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Up there

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Far

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Now

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Maintenant

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No longer

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Sometimes

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Worse

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almost

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Sometimes

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Quelquefois

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Often

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So much

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Late

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Early

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Always

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In a while; a while ago

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Tout à l’heure

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Immediately

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Tout de suite

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Straight ahead

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Tout droit

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Nearby

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Tout près

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