8.4. Lists of Adverbs
8.4.1. Frequency
| Adverb | Translation |
|---|---|
| Cata hora | Hourly / Every hour |
| Septimanalmente / Cata septimana | Weekly / Every week |
| Mensualmente / Cata mese | Monthly / Each month |
| Annualmente / Cata anno | Yearly / Annually / Each year |
| Brevemente | Briefly |
| Diariamente / Quotidianamente / Cata día | Daily / Every day |
| Trimestralmente / Cata tres meses | Quarterly |
| Quíndicinalmente / Cata doas septimanas | Fortnightly |
| Regularmente / Con regularitate | Regularly |
| Permanentemente | Permanently |
| De nòvo / Nòvamente | Again |
| Ancora una vece | Yet again / Once again / Once more |
| Ad la hora | Per hour |
| Ad lo día | Per day |
| Una vece | Once |
| Doas veces | Twice |
| Raramente | Rarely |
| Occasionalmente | Occasionally |
| Sene fine | Without end |
| Sene cessare | Without stopping / Endlessly |
| Totos los días | Every day |
| Toto lo día / Lo día entègro | All day |
| Tota la nòcte | All night |
| Per septimana | Per week |
| Per hora | Per hour |
8.4.2. Time
| Adverb | Translation |
|---|---|
| Sèmpre | Always |
| Constantemente | Constantly |
| Quasi sèmpre | Almost always |
| Normalmente | Usually / Normally |
| Frequentemente | Frequently / Often |
| Ad veces | Sometimes |
| Raramente | Rarely |
| Infrequentemente | Infrequently |
| Jamàis / Nunca | Never |
| Quasi nunca / Quasi jamàis | Almost never / Hardly ever |
| De tanto en tanto / De vece en quando / De tèmpo en tèmpo | From time to time / Every now and then |
| Irregularmente / Sene regularitate | Irregularly |
| Contínuamente | Continuously |
| Consistentemente / De manaria consistènte | Consistently |
| Repetutamente | Repeatedly |
| Repetutas veces / Plus et plus veces | Again and again / Over and over |
| Generalmente | Generally |
| Con lo tèmpo / Con lo passo de lo tèmpo | Over time |
| La majjoría de las veces / La majjor parte de las veces / La majjor parte de lo tèmpo | Most of the time / The majority of the time |
| Alcuna vece | Some time / Ever |
| Dès de un tèmpo / En bastante tèmpo | In a while |
| Dès de molto tèmpo | In a long time |
| Ad hòjje / Fine ad la data | To this day / To date |
| Fine ad acora | So far |
| Dentro de pauco / En brève | Shortly |
| Lo ante possíbile / Tanto prèsto como sèa possíbile / Quanto ante | As soon as possible |
| De repènte / Repentinamente / Súbito / Súbitamente | Suddenly |
| De colpo | Suddenly (informal) |
| Immediatamente / De immediato / De sequita / En sequita | Immediately |
| Per la mattina / En la mattina | In the morning |
| En lo posmejjodía | In the afternoon |
| En la sera / Ad la sera / Ad lo vèspro | In the evening |
| Ad la nòcte | At night |
| Ad lo plus tarde | At the latest |
| Ad lo plus tòsto / Ad lo plus prèsto | At the earliest |
| En cuestos tèmpos que corren | In this day and age |
| De bòna hora / Ad hora tòsta / Ad hora prèsta | At an early hour |
| Ad lo día de hòjje | Nowadays / These days |
| De acora en avante | From now on |
| De un día ad lo altro / De la nòcte ad lo día | Overnight |
| Por lòngo / Por lòngo tèmpo | For long / For a long time |
| En cuella època / En cuellos tèmpos | Back then |
| Día et nòcte | Day and night / Around the clock |
| Ad lo momènto / En cuesto momènto | At the moment / For the moment |
| Por acora | For now / For the time being |
| Anticipatamente / Con anticipatione | Beforehand / Ahead of time / In advance |
| Por moltos annos ad venire | For years to come |
| Ad lo último momènto / Ad lo último minuto | At the last moment / At the last minute |
| Por los sèculos de los sèculos | Forever and ever |
| Ancora una vece / Una vece plus / Una altra vece | Once again / Once more |
| Ad lo mesmo tèmpo | At the same time |
| Una vece por totos | Once and for all |
| En la foga de lo momènto | In the heat of the moment |
| Ad cata passo de lo cammino | At every step of the way |
| En qualonque momènto | At any moment |
| Ad una jóvene etate | At an early age |
| Tòsto aut tarde / Prèsto aut tarde | Sooner or later |
| Tòsto / Prèsto / Ceto | Soon |
| Ad tèmpo | On time |
| Ad tèmpo devuto / En soo tèmpo devuto | In due time |
| Por la prima vece | For the first time |
| Con pauco preavviso | With little notice |
| Sene avviso | Without warning |
| En un solo colpo | In one fell swoop |
| Ad lòngo tèrmino / Ad la lònga | In the long term |
| Ad corto tèrmino | In the short term |
| De un respiro | In one breath |
| En un oclino | In the blink of an eye |
| En un instante | In a flash |
| Por una vece | For once |
| Por variare | For a change |
| Toto lo tèmpo | All the time |
| De lo initio ad la fine | From start to finish |
| Lo altro día | The other day |
| Innumeràbiles veces / Incontàbiles veces | Countless times |
| En lo futuro | In the future |
| En lo futuro pròximo | In the near future |
| Precedentemente / Anteriormente / Previamente | Previously |
| Dès de tèmpos immemoriàbiles | Since time immemorial |
| En retardo | Late (after scheduled time) |
| Tarde | Late (near end of day) |
| En toto momènto / En cata momènto | At all times |
| Quando | When |
| Un día / Un jorno | One day |
| Alcún día / Alcún jorno / Qualque día / Qualque jorno | Some day |
| Lo majjor tèmpo possíbile / Tanto tèmpo como sèa possíbile / Lo màximo tèmpo possíble | As much time possible / As long as possible |
| Lo menor tèmpo possíbile / Lo mínimo tèmpo possíble | As little time possible / As little as possible |
| En alcún momènto / En qualque momènto / Ad un cèrto momènto | At some point |
8.4.3. Sequence
| Adverb | Translation |
|---|---|
| En primo lòco | Firstly |
| En secondo lòco | Secondly |
| En tèrtso lòco | Thirdly |
| Pòs | Then |
| Successivamente | Subsequently |
| Finalmente | Finally |
8.4.4. Manner
| Adverb | Translation |
|---|---|
| Progressivamente | Progressively |
| Gradualmente | Gradually |
| Lentamente | Slowly |
| Ràpidamente | Quickly |
| Pauco ad pauco | Little by little |
| Ad voce bassa / En voce bassa | In a low voice / Quietly |
| Ad alta voce / En voce alta | Out loud / Aloud |
| De prèssa | In a hurry / In a rush |
| De meravillîa | Marvellously |
| De memòria | By memory / By heart |
| En secrèto | In secret |
| En detallîe | In detail |
| En vano | In vain |
| En massa | En masse |
| En excèsso | In excess |
| En persona | In person |
| En carne et òsso | In the flesh |
| En contèxto | In context |
| Per escripto | Written |
| Per errore | By mistake |
| Sene volere | By mistake / By accident |
| Sene pensare | Without thinking / Mindlessly |
| Per experièntia | From experience |
| Per despècto | Out of spite |
| Per amore | Out of love |
| Per jelosía | Out of jealousy |
| Per electione | By choice |
| Per diversione / Per divertimènto | For fun |
| Per caso | By chance |
| Per telèfono | By phone |
| Per pòsta electrònica | By e-mail |
| Per mare | By sea |
| Per vía aèrea | By air |
| Per lege | By law |
| Fòra de contèxto | Out of context |
| De prima persona | First-hand |
| Con certettsa | With certainty |
| Ad lo insano | Like a madman |
| A la cèca / Cecamente | Blindly |
| Ad sangue frégedo | In cold blood |
| Ad oltrantsa | To the bitter end |
| Ad metate | Halfway |
| Ad pède | On foot |
| Ad cavallo | On horseback |
| Ad òclo | By eye |
| Ad òclo nudo / Ad òllîo nudo | To the naked eye |
| Ad mano | By hand |
| Metículosamente | Meticulously |
| Diligentemente | Diligently |
| Cautelosamente | Cautiously |
| Attentamente | Carefully |
| Con cautela | With caution |
| Con cura | With care |
| Con calma | Calmly |
| Con tacto | With tact |
| Con amore | With love |
| Ad plenos pulmones / Ad toto pulmone | At the top of one's lungs |
| Ad tota velocitate | At full speed |
| Per capriccîo / Per impulso | On a whim / On an impulse |
| Ad prima vista | At first sight |
| Per la fòrtsa / Ad la fòrtsa | By force |
| En prima persona | In the first person |
| En tèrtsa persona | In the third person |
| Con stupore / Con meravillîa | In awe |
| En silèntio | In silence |
| Con moderatione | In moderation |
| En actione | In action |
| En privato | In private |
| En legítima defènsa | In self-defense |
| En contantes / En líquido | In cash |
| En positione / En soo lòco | In place / In position |
| Per principio | On principle |
| Per represallîa | In retaliation |
| Ad toto còsto | At all costs / At any cost |
| Ad toto volume | At full volume |
| De bocca en bocca | By word of mouth |
| Dentro de lo rattsonàbile / En los límites rattsonàbiles | Within reason |
| En profunditate | In depth |
| En directo / En vivo | Live |
| En càmara lènta / Ad lo rallentatore | In slow motion |
| Solo de nome | In name only |
| Sobto juramènto | Under oath |
| Sobto falsos pretèxtos | Under false pretenses |
| Anònimamente | Anonymously |
| Sobto la menaccîa de arma / Ad mano armata | At gunpoint |
| Incàutamente | Carelessly |
| Conscientemente | Conciously |
| Patientemente | Patiently |
| Diffícilmente | Hardly / With difficulty |
| Ad la velocitate de la luce | At light speed |
| De abscosto / De absconduto | Sneakily / In secret |
| Silentiosamente | Silently |
| Instintivamente | Instinctively |
| Per instinto | By instinct |
| Intuitivamente | Intuitively |
| De bòna fede | In good faith |
| De mala fede | In bad faith |
| Como si necausa fòsse | As if it were nothing |
| Casualmente | Coincidentally |
| Lo plus ràpido possíble / Lo plus ràpidamente possíble / Tanto ràpido como sèa possíbile | As fast as possible |
8.4.5. Place
| Adverb | Translation |
|---|---|
| Qualonque lòco | Anywhere |
| En alcun lòco / En qualque | Somewhere |
| En (un) altro lòco | Elsewhere |
| Per totos latos / Ovonque / En totas partes | Everywhere |
| Ad bòrdo | Aboard |
| Avante | Ahead |
| Necún lòco / Necuna parte | Nowhere |
| Là / Allà | There |
| Cuí / Accuí | Here |
| Pròpe | Nearby / Close by |
| Devante | In front |
| Sobto / En basso / Abbasso | Below / Under |
| En alto | Above |
| Dentro / Addentro | Inside |
| Fòra / Affòra | Outside |
| Lònge | Far away |
| Derètro | Behind |
| Ad lo estrangèro / En lo estrangèro | Abroad |
| Vèrso lo basso | Downward / Facing down |
| Vèrso lo alto | Upward / Facing up |
| Vèrso lo èste / Vèrso lo oriènte | Eastward / Facing east |
| Vèrso lo oèste / Vèrso lo occidènte | Westward / Facing west |
| Vèrso lo nòrde | Northward / Facing north |
| Vèrso lo sude | Southward / Facing south |
| Verticale | Upright |
| Ad lo invèrso | Upside down |
| Avante | Forward |
| Arrètro | Backward |
| Oltra | Beyond |
| Per cuí / Per accuí | Over here |
| Per là / Per allà | Over there |
| Là en basso | Down there |
| Accuí en basso | Down here |
| Là en alto | Up there |
| Ad lo lato | Aside / To the side |
| En mèjjo | Between / In the middle |
| En torno | Around |
| En accuí / En cuí | In here |
| Cuí fòra / Accuí fòra | Out here |
| Là dentro | In there |
| Là fòra | Out there |
| Derètro lo àngulo | Around the corner |
| Ad los quattro vèntos | Everywhere |
| En pleno [+ substantivo] | In the middle of... |
| De pròpe | Up close |
| Ad mèjjo cammino | Halfway |
| Ad monte | Upstream |
| Ad valle | Downstream |
| A lo lònge / En la distantia | In the distance / Far away |
| De lònge / Dès de lònge | From afar |
| Oltramare | Overseas |
| Ad portata de mano | Close at hand / In arm's reach |
| En la perifería | On the outskirts |
| En lo horizonte / Ad lo horizonte | On the horizon |
| En prisione | In prison |
| En la obscuritate | In the dark |
| Faccîa ad faccîa | Face to face |
| Ad lo volante | At the wheel |
| Ad lo timone | At the helm |
| Ad mòstra / En exhibitione | On display |
| De alto en basso | From top to bottom |
| En sènso horario | Clockwise |
| Antihorario / En sènso antihorario | Counter-clockwise |
| De lo capo ad los pèdes | From head to foot / From head to toe |
| De senestra ad derecta | From left to right |
| En plena luce de lo día / En pleno día | In broad daylight |
| Fòra de vista | Out of sight |
| En tribunale | In court |
| De lato | Sideways |
| En lo fondo | In the background |
| En primo plano | In the foreground |
| En la cima | At the top |
| En lo fondo | At the bottom |
| Onde / Ove | Where |
| Wherever | Ovonque |
8.4.6. Degree/Quality
| Adverb | Translation |
|---|---|
| Completamente | Completely |
| Absolutamente | Absolutely |
| Entegramente | Entirely |
| Plenamente | Fully |
| Totalmente | Totally |
| Realmente | Really |
| Veramente | Truly |
| Molto | Very |
| Molto | A lot |
| Tròppo | Too |
| Tròppo | Too much |
| Extremamente | Extremely |
| Quasi | Almost |
| Per pauco | Almost |
| Per un pelo | By a hair (Barely) |
| Non de lo toto / Per necausa | Not at all |
| Sufficiènte | Enough |
| Ad pena sufficiènte / Appena sufficiènte | Just enough |
| Tanto | So much |
| Tanto / Talmente | So / That |
| Un pauco | A little / A bit |
| Bastante | Quite / Quite a lot |
| Ad pena / Appena | Barely |
| Solo / Solamente | Only |
| Plus / Màis | More |
| Menos | Less / Fewer |
| Cata vece plus / De plus en plus | More and more |
| En soa majjoría / En soa majjor parte | Mostly / For the most part |
| Plus aut menos | More or less |
| En parte / Partialmente | Partly / Partially / In part |
| Excessivamente | Excessively |
| Cata vece plus / De plus en plus | Increasingly |
| Molto plus / Molto mais | Much more / A lot more |
| Molto menos | Much less / A lot less |
| Assí de | That |
| Símplicemente | Simply |
| Plus tòsto / Bastante | Quite / Rather |
| Moderatamente | Moderately |
| Ad lo màximo | At the most |
| Como mínimo | At a minimum |
| Predominantemente / Prevalentemente | Predominantly |
| En grande parte / En bòna parte | Mainly / In large part |
| Principalmente | Mainly |
| Majjoritariamente | Mostly |
| De lònge | By far |
| En mèdia | On average |
| Con cata fibra de mèo èssere | With every fiber of my being |
| Con toto mèo còre | With all my heart |
| Con totas mèa fòrtsas | With all my might |
| Ad grande escala | On a large scale |
| Ad pettita escala | On a small scale |
| Exageratamente | Excessively |
| Extensivamente | Extensively |
| Ampliamente | Widely |
| Intensamente | Intensely |
| Deeply | Profondamente |
| Lo plus possíble / Tanto como sèa possíbile / Lo màximo possíble / Quanto sèa possíbile | As much as possible |
| Lo menos possíble / Tanto pauco como sèa possíbile / Lo mínimo possíble | As little as possible |
| Ad una cèrta mesura / Fine ad (un) cèrto ponto | To some extent / To some degree |