French 240 Adverbs

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Adverbs denote

Time, place, describe the manner of a verb

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Facile (easy)

Facilement (easily)

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Douce (gentle,soft)

Doucement

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Lent (slow)

Lentement

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Public

Publiquement

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Amer (bitter)

Amèrement

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Évidemment

Obviously/ clearly/ of course

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Vrai

Vraiment (really, truly)

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If the masculine singular ends in -ent or -ant

-amment replaces -ant

-emment replaces -ent

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Aveugle (blind)

Aveuglement

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commun (common)

Communément

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Intense

Intensément

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Profond

Profondément

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Parler (tout) bas

To speak (very) softly

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Acheter/vendre cher

To buy/sell at a high price

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S’arrêter court

To stop short

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Aller tout droit

Go straight ahead

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Travailler dur

Work hard

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Parler/ crier fort

To speak/yell/ cry out loudly

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Lire tout haut

To read aloud

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Mettre la radio plus haut

To turn up the radio louder

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Gai

Gaiement (happily)

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Bref

Brièvement (breifly)

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Bon (well)

Bien

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Mauvais

Mal (badly)

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Meilleur

Mal (badly)

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Pire

Pis (worse)

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Thus

Ainsi

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Up/ awake/ standing up

Debout

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On purpose

Exprès

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Quickly

Vite

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Gladly

Volontiers

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Adverbs of manner ending in -ment and the adverbs bien, mal, mieux, pis, and vite usually directly follow the verb they modify. In compound tenses, short adverbs usually follow the auxiliary verb, and longer adverbs usually follow the past participle

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When an adverb modifies an adjective or another adverb, it precedes the word it modifies

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Adverbs of manner ending in -ment can be replaces by avec plus the corresponding noun

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Sans + noun forms a negative adjective

Example: sans espoir, hopelessly

Sans honte, shamelessly

Sans hésitation! Unhesitatingly

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D’une façon , d’une manière, d’un ton, or d’un air plus an adjective may be used where no adverb exists

D’une façon compétente, competently

D’une manière comparable, compatible

D’une ton moquer, mockingly

D’un air indécis, indecisively

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Actuellement

At present

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Alors

Then

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Apres

After/afterwards

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Après demain

The day after tomorrow

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Aujourd’hui

Today

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Auparavant

Previously/beforehand

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Aussitôt

Immediately

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Autrefois

Formerly/ in the past

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Avant

Before

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Avant heir

The day before yesterday

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Bientôt

Soon

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D’abord

First

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De bonne heure

Early

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Déjà

Already/ ever

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Demain

Tomorrow

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Dernièrement

Lately

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Désormais

From now on

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Encore

Still, yet, again

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Encore une fois

Again

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Enfin

at last, finally

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Ensuite

Next, following that

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Hier

Yesterday

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Jamais

Never

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Longtemps

For a long time

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Maintenant

Now

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N’importe quand

Anytime

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Parfois

Sometimes

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Précédemment

Previously

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Quelquefois

Sometimes

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Rarement

Rarely, seldom

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Récemment

Recently

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Tard

Late

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Tôt

Early

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Toujours

Always

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Tout à l’heure

A short while ago

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Toute de suite

Immediately

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Adverbs of time usually follow the verb but they often occur st the beginning

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Ailleurs

Elsewhere, somewhere else

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Autour

Around

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D’ailleurs

Besides

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Dedans

Inside

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Dehors

Outside

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Derrière

Behind

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Dessous

Below

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Dessus

Above

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Devant

In front

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En bas

Down, downstairs

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En haut

Up, upstairs

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Ici

Here

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Là

There

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Là bas

Over there

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Loin

Far away

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N’importe où

Anywhere

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Nulle part

Nowhere

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Nulle part ailleurs

Nowhere else

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Près

Near

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Quelque part

Somewhere

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Là often replaces ici both spoken and written

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Là can be added to adverbs of place

Là dedans, in there

Là dessous, underneath there

Là dessus, on top of it on it

Là haut, up there

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Dès le matin

From the morning on

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Dès le début

From the beginning

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Dès mon retour

As soon as I get back

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À partir d’aujourd’hui

From today on