adverb

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• ăd′vûrb
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæd.vɜːb/
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• General-American: /ˈæd.vɜɹb/
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• rhymes with -ædvɜː(ɹ)b
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 D V ER0 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verb(um) (“word, verb”) + -ium, so called because it is used to supplement other words (not specifically verbs). By surface analysis, ad- + verb.

168 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: bywoord — lexical category
• Albanian: ndajfolje — lexical category
• Amharic: ተውሳከ ግስ (täwsakä gəs) — lexical category
• Arabic: ظَرْف (ẓarf) — lexical category
• Aragonese: alberbio — lexical category
• Aramaic: עלמלתא (ʿalmélta) — lexical category
• Armenian: մակբայ (makbay) — lexical category
• Asturian: alverbiu — lexical category
• Aymara: mayjachiri — lexical category
• Azerbaijani: zərf — lexical category
• Bashkir: рәүеш (rəweş) — lexical category
• Basque: adizlagun — lexical category
• Basque: adberbio — lexical category
• Belarusian: прысло́ўе (pryslówje) — lexical category
• Bengali: ক্রিয়া-বিশেষণ (kriẏa-biśeśon) — lexical category
• Breton: adverb — lexical category
• Bulgarian: наре́чие (naréčie) — lexical category
• Burmese: ကြိယာဝိသေသန (kri.yawi.sesa.na.) — lexical category
• Catalan: adverbi — lexical category
• Chechen: куцдош (kucdoš) — lexical category
• Chinese Cantonese: 副詞 /副词 (fu3 ci4) — lexical category
• Chinese: 副詞 /副词 (hù-sû) — lexical category
• Chinese Mandarin: 副詞 /副词 (fùcí) — lexical category
• Chuvash: наречи (nareč̬i) — lexical category
• Chuvash: ӗҫхӗлтеш (ĕśhĕlt̬eš) — lexical category
• Cornish: adverb — lexical category
• Crimean Tatar: zarf — lexical category
• Czech: příslovce — lexical category
• Czech: adverbium — lexical category
• Danish: adverbium — lexical category
• Danish: biord — lexical category
• Dutch: bijwoord — lexical category
• Erzya: малавал (malaval) — lexical category
• Esperanto: adverbo — lexical category
• Estonian: määrsõna — lexical category
• Estonian: adverb — lexical category
• Faroese: hjáorð — lexical category
• Finnish: adverbi — lexical category
• Finnish: seikkasana — lexical category
• French: adverbe — lexical category
• West-Frisian: bywurd — lexical category
• Friulian: avierb — lexical category
• Galician: adverbio — lexical category
• Georgian: ზმნიზედა (zmnizeda) — lexical category
• German: Adverb — lexical category
• German: Umstandswort — lexical category
• German: Nebenwort — lexical category
• German: Zuwort — lexical category
• German: Adverbium — lexical category
• German: dated — lexical category
• German: Zeitnebenwort — lexical category
• Middle High German: zūwort — lexical category
• German: Middle High German — lexical category
• German: zuwort — lexical category
• Greek: επίρρημα (epírrima) — lexical category
• Ancient Greek: ἐπίρρημα (epírrhēma) — lexical category
• Gujarati: ક્રિયાવિશેષણ (kriyāviśeṣaṇ) — lexical category
• Hebrew: תֹּאַר הַפֹּעַל (tó'ar hapó'al) — lexical category
• Hindi: क्रियाविशेषण (kriyāviśeṣaṇ) — lexical category
• Hungarian: határozószó — lexical category
• Icelandic: atviksorð — lexical category
• Ido: adverbo — lexical category
• Indonesian: adverbia — lexical category
• Interlingua: adverbio — lexical category
• Irish: dobhriathar — lexical category
• Italian: avverbio — lexical category
• Japanese: 副詞 (fukushi) — lexical category
• Kabyle: amernu — lexical category
• Kannada: ಕ್ರಿಯಾವಿಶೇಷಣ (kriyāviśēṣaṇa) — lexical category
• Kapampangan: panantabe — lexical category
• Kashubian: przësłówk — lexical category
• Kazakh: шылау (şylau) — lexical category
• Kazakh: үстеу (üsteu) — lexical category
• Khmer: គុណកិរិយា (kunaʼ keriyaa) — lexical category
• Khmer: កិរិយាវិសេសន៍ (keriyaa visaeh) — lexical category
• Korean: 부사 (busa) — lexical category
• Northern Kurdish: hoker — lexical category
• Kyrgyz: тактооч (taktooc) — lexical category
• Lao: ຄໍາກິຣິຍາວິເສດ (kham ki ri nyā wi sēt) — lexical category
• Lao: ວິເສດ (wi sēt) — lexical category
• Latin: adverbium — lexical category
• Latvian: apstākļa vārds — lexical category
• Latvian: adverbs — lexical category
• Limburgish: biewaord — lexical category
• Lingala: lilandi — lexical category
• Lithuanian: prieveiksmis — lexical category
• Macedonian: прилог (prilog) — lexical category
• Malay: adverba — lexical category
• Malayalam: ക്രിയാവിശേഷണം (kriyāviśēṣaṇaṁ) — lexical category
• Maltese: avverbju — lexical category
• Māori: kupu tūkē — lexical category
• Māori: tūkē — lexical category
• Māori: tūmahi āhua — lexical category
• Māori: tūwā — lexical category
• Māori: kupumahi āhua — lexical category
• Marathi: क्रियाविषेशण (kriyāviṣeśaṇ) — lexical category
• Eastern Mari: наречий (narečij) — lexical category
• Mongolian: дайвар үг (dajvar üg) — lexical category
• Nahuatl: cauhtic — lexical category
• Norman: advèrbe — lexical category
• Norwegian Bokmål: adverb — lexical category
• Norwegian Nynorsk: adverb — lexical category
• Norwegian Nynorsk: utfyllingsord — lexical category
• Occitan: advèrbi — lexical category
• Odia: କ୍ରିୟା ବିଶେଷଣ (kriyā biśeṣaṇa) — lexical category
• Old English: bīword — lexical category
• Ossetian: фӕрсдзырд (færsʒyrd) — lexical category
• Pali: kiriyāvisesana — lexical category
• Pashto: قيد (qayd) — lexical category
• Dari: قَیْد (qayd) — lexical category
• Dari: ظَرْف (zarf) — lexical category
• Iranian Persian: قِیْد (ġeyd) — lexical category
• Iranian Persian: ظَرْف (zarf) — lexical category
• Plautdietsch: Adwerb — lexical category
• Plautdietsch: Omstauntswuat — lexical category
• Polish: przysłówek — lexical category
• Polish: adverbium — lexical category
• Polish: adwerbium — lexical category
• Portuguese: advérbio — lexical category
• Punjabi: ਕਿਰਿਆ-ਵਿਸ਼ੇਸ਼ਣ (kiriā-viśeśaṇ) — lexical category
• Quechua: hinarimana — lexical category
• Romanian: adverb — lexical category
• Russian: наре́чие (naréčije) — lexical category
• Northern Sami: advearba — lexical category
• Sanskrit: क्रियाविशेषण (kriyāviśeṣaṇa) — lexical category
• Scots: adverb — lexical category
• Scottish Gaelic: co-ghnìomhair — lexical category
• Serbo-Croatian: при́лог — lexical category
• Serbo-Croatian: а̀дверб — lexical category
• Serbo-Croatian: prílog — lexical category
• Serbo-Croatian: àdverb — lexical category
• Sicilian: avverbiu — lexical category
• Sinhalese: ක්රියා විශේෂණය (kriyā wiśēṣaṇaya) — lexical category
• Slovak: príslovka — lexical category
• Slovene: prislov — lexical category
• Spanish: adverbio — lexical category
• Swahili: kielezi — lexical category
• Swahili: kisifa — lexical category
• Swedish: adverb — lexical category
• Tagalog: pang-abay — lexical category
• Tajik: зарф (zarf) — lexical category
• Tajik: қайд (qayd) — lexical category
• Tamil: வினையுரிச்சொல் (viṉaiyuriccol) — lexical category
• Tatar: рәвеш (räweş) — lexical category
• Telugu: క్రియా విశేషణము (kriyā viśēṣaṇamu) — lexical category
• Thai: กริยาวิเศษณ์ (grì-yaa-wí-sèet) — lexical category
• Thai: วิเศษณ์ (wí-sèet) — lexical category
• Tulu: ಕ್ರಿಯಾವಿಶೇಷಣ (kriyāviśēṣaṇa) — lexical category
• Turkish: belirteç — lexical category
• Turkish: zarf — lexical category
• Turkmen: ahwalet — lexical category
• Turkmen: hal — lexical category
• Ukrainian: прислі́вник (pryslívnyk) — lexical category
• Urdu: مُتَعَلِّقِ فِعْل (muta'alliq-i fi'l) — lexical category
• Urdu: تابِعِ فِعْل (tābi'-i fi'l) — lexical category
• Uyghur: ھالەت (halet) — lexical category
• Uyghur: رەۋىش (rewish) — lexical category
• Uzbek: hol — lexical category
• Uzbek: ravish — lexical category
• Vietnamese: trạng từ — lexical category
• Vietnamese: phó từ — lexical category
• Volapük: ladvärb — lexical category
• Volapük: ladvelib — lexical category
• Welsh: adferf — lexical category
• Wolaytta: peesho zemppuwa — lexical category
• Yiddish: אַדווערב — lexical category
• Zazaki: zerf — lexical category
• Zulu: isandiso — lexical category