different between adverb vs inconsequentially

English

Etymology

From French adverbe, from Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) +? verbum (“word, verb”), so called because it is used to supplement other words.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æd.v??b/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æd.v?b/
• Hyphenation: ad?verb

Noun

adverb (plural adverbs)

1. (grammar) A word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or various other types of words, phrases, or clauses.

   (modifying a verb)

   (modifying an adjective)

   (modifying another adverb)

Usage notes

Adverbs comprise a fundamental category of words in most languages. In English, adverbs are typically formed from adjectives by appending -ly and are used to modify verbs, verb phrases, adjectives, other adverbs, and entire sentences, but rarely nouns or noun phrases.

Hyponyms

• (words that modify verbs, etc.): intransitive preposition

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

adverb (third-person singular simple present adverbs, present participle adverbing, simple past and past participle adverbed)

1. (rare) To make into or become an adverb.

Synonyms

• adverbialize

See also

• Category:Adverbs by language

Anagrams

• Bevard, braved

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adv??b/

Etymology

From French adverbe.

Noun

adverb

1. adverb

Related terms

• adverbial

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) +? verbum (“word, verb”).

Noun

adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb or adverber, definite plural adverba or adverbene)

1. (grammar) an adverb

References

• “adverb” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) +? verbum (“word, verb”).

Noun

adverb n (definite singular adverbet, indefinite plural adverb, definite plural adverba)

1. (grammar) an adverb

References

• “adverb” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) +? verbum (“word, verb”), French adverbe.

Noun

adverb n (plural adverbe)

1. adverb

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) +? verbum (“word, verb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?erb/
• Hyphenation: ad?verb

Noun

àdverb m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. adverb

Declension

Synonyms

• prílog

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin adverbium, from ad- (“to”) + verbum (“word”).

Noun

adverb n

1. adverb

Declension

Related terms

• adverbial

Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

adverb

1. adverb

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “???????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

English

Etymology

inconsequential +? -ly

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k?ns??kwen??li/

Adverb

inconsequentially (comparative more inconsequentially, superlative most inconsequentially)

1. In an inconsequential manner.

Antonyms

• consequentially