ADV: adverb
Definition
Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. They may also modify adjectives (as in claramente falso “clearly fake”), other adverbs (as in muy brevemente “very briefly”) or even nouns / pronouns (as in solamente tú “only you”).
There is a closed subclass of pronominal adverbs that refer to circumstances in context, rather than naming
them directly; similarly to pronouns, these can be categorized as interrogative, relative, demonstrative, etc.
To conform to the UD guidelines, pronominal adverbs also get the ADV part-of-speech tag but they are
differentiated by additional features (see pronominal type).
Examples
- muy “very”
- bien “well”
- exactamente “exactly”
- mañana “tomorrow”
- arriba, abajo “up, down”
- interrogative adverbs: dónde, cuándo “where, when”
- relative adverbs: donde, cuando “where, when” (depending on context, these can be also subordinating conjunctions)
- demonstrative adverbs: aquí, allí, ahora, después “here, there, now, then”
- totality adverbs: siempre “always”
- negative adverbs: nunca “never”
In Spanish adverbs can be derived from adjectives using the suffix {-mente}, such as lentamente (“slowly”)
or rápidamente (“quickly”), or without any formal modification, where many adjectives in masculine singular
form are used as adverbs, such as hablar alto (“speak loudly”) or trabajar duro (“work hard”).
These are still tagged as ADJ and not ADV; note that their adverbial function is captured by the relation
advmod.
ADV in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [ca] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [eu] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]