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)
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