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An adverb that modifies an adjective or adverb comes before that adjective or adverb: complètement vrai ("completely true") pas possible ("not possible") trop bien cuit ("too well cooked" or "overdone") An adverb that modifies an infinitive (verbal noun) generally comes after the infinitive: marcher lentement ("to walk slowly")
Many languages have sets of demonstrative adverbs that are closely related to the demonstrative pronouns in a language. For example, corresponding to the demonstrative pronoun that are the adverbs such as then (= "at that time"), there (= "at that place"), thither (= "to that place"), thence (= "from that place"); equivalent adverbs ...
An exception to this is the adverb tout "wholly, very" which agrees in gender and number with the adjective it modifies when it is in the feminine and begins with a consonant (e.g. tout petit "very small, m.s.", tous petits "very small, m.pl." but toute petite "very small, f.s.", toutes petites "very small, f.pl." — when beginning with a ...
The major reason why there is confusion by native English speakers is that "this" and "that" are also used in English as demonstrative adjectives that correspond to the single French demonstrative adjective ce 'this; that' (declined as: cet m. before vowels, cette f. and ces m.pl.).
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, an adjective, another adverb, a determiner, a clause, a preposition, or a sentence. Adverbs typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, or level of certainty by answering questions such as how , in what way , when , where , to what extent .
A few common adverbs have optional short forms in -o. sol 'alone' → solo or solmente 'only' Like adjectives, adverbs use plus and minus to express the comparative and le plus and le minus to express the superlative. Illa canta plus bellemente que illa parla. 'She sings more beautifully than she speaks.'
Sententail adverbs take up the entire sentence and appear after or before the verb's core argument. For example: to show frequency, /te pong/ meaning "sometimes" is used as a sentential adverb. Spatial adverbs are used to show the location of the speaker and the direction the speaker is speaking towards.
The prepositions à (' to, at ') and de (' of, from ') form contracted forms with the masculine and plural articles le and les: au, du, aux, and des, respectively.. Like the, the French definite article is used with a noun referring to a specific item when both the speaker and the audience know what the item is.