ADVERB 🕐

a word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective, adverb, or phrase

🎯 Focus per level:

• A1: Time/place adverbs
• A2: Degree/frequency (immer, nie)
• B1-B2: Logical connectors (deshalb, obwohl, trotzdem, außerdem)

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Locative Adverbs

Answer to the questions “Where/Where … to/Where … from?

• aufwärts upwards
• außen outside
• da here/there
• dort there/over there
• drinnen inside
• fort away
• hier here
• hierhin up to here
• hinein into
• hinten behind
• irgendwo somewhere
• links left (of)
• nebenan near
• oberhalb above
• überall everywhere
• unten below
• vorn in front

Temporal Adverbs

answer to the questions “When/How long/How often/Until when/Since when?”

• bald soon
• bereits already
• bisher until now
• danach thereafter
• davor beforehand
• einst once
• endlich eventually/finally
• freitags on Fridays
• gestern yesterday
• immer always
• inzwischen meanwhile
• neulich recently/lately
• nie never
• oft often
• regelmäßig regularly
• sofort immediately
• stets constantly
• täglich daily
• vorhin earlier
• zurzeit at the time

Modal Adverbs

Modal adverbs are the answer to the questions “How/How much?”

• anders different
• äußerst extremely
• beinahe nearly
• bekanntlich famously
• ebenfalls likewise
• fast almost
• folgendermaßen as follows
• ganz completely
• genauso exactly like
• genug enough
• gern gladly
• größtenteils mostly
• hauptsächlich mainly
• hoffentlich hopefully
• kaum hardly
• leider unfortunately
• möglicherweise possibly
• reihenweise row after row, by the dozen
• sehr very
• so so/thus/in that way
• vielleicht perhaps
• wirklich truly/really

Causal Adverbs

nswer to the questions “How so/For what reason/Why/Under what condition?”

• also so, therefore
• anstandshalber for decency’s sake
• dadurch through that/because of that
• darum therefore/because of that
• demnach thus/according to that
• demzufolge whereby/accordingly
• deshalb therefore
• folglich consequently
• sicherheitshalber preventatively
• somit thus/therefore trotzdem despite that

Relative Adverbs

used in relative clauses.

• wo where
• womit with which
• wofür for which
• worüber about which

Conjunctional Adverbs

use some adverbs to tie clauses together.

• außerdem besides
• danach thereafter
• deshalb therefore
• folglich consequently
• schließlich finally
• trotzdem despite that
• zuvor previously