adverbial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis. By surface analysis, adverb +‎ -ial.

Pronunciation

Adjective

adverbial (comparative more adverbial, superlative most adverbial)

  1. (grammar) Of or relating to an adverb.
    • 1876, “Ad′verb”, in John M[erry] Ross, editor, The Globe Enyclopædia of Universal Information, volume I, Boston, Mass.: Estes & Lauriat, […], page 25, column 1:
      As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 495:
      And in (123) below, a (bracketed) Adverbial Phrase has undergone WH MOVEMENT:
      (123) (a)      [How quickly] will he drink the beer —?
      (123) (b)      [How carefully] did he plan his campaign —?
      (123) (c)      [How well] did he treat her —?

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Translations

Noun

adverbial (plural adverbials)

  2. (grammar) An adverbial word or phrase.

Usage notes

Although traditional metalanguage often uses adverbial as a noun and will call a prepositional phrase an adverb, some authorities in linguistics avoid these usages, saying instead (more precisely) that the phrase under discussion functions adverbially in that context.[1]

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References

  1. ^ Pullum, Geoffrey K. (2024) The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, page 71:
    It’s a bad failing of virtually all traditional books on grammar that they often confuse the category of adverbs with the function of being a modifier. Any phrase that seems to modify a verb, adjective, preposition, determinative, or adverb is likely to be called an adverb (or an “adverbial,” a thoroughly unhelpful term that I avoid). So when they notice that She left in haste has roughly the same meaning as She left hastily, they call in haste either an adverb or an “adverbial.” This is a mistake: in haste is grammatically a PP [prepositional phrase], with the preposition in as its head. Its function is that of modifier of a verb, but that’s not the same thing as being an adverb.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

adverbial m or f (masculine and feminine plural adverbials)

  1. adverbial

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Further reading

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

adverbial (feminine adverbiale, masculine plural adverbiaux, feminine plural adverbiales)

  1. adverbial

Derived terms

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adverbiālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adbɛɾˈbjal/ [að̞.β̞ɛɾˈβ̞jɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: ad‧ver‧bial

Adjective

adverbial m or f (plural adverbiais)

  1. adverbial (of or relating to an adverb)

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Etymology

Adverb +‎ -ial

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔatvɛɐ̯ˈbi̯aːl/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

adverbial (strong nominative masculine singular adverbialer, not comparable)

  1. adverbial

Declension

Positive forms of adverbial (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist adverbial sie ist adverbial es ist adverbial sie sind adverbial
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative adverbialer adverbiale adverbiales adverbiale
genitive adverbialen adverbialer adverbialen adverbialer
dative adverbialem adverbialer adverbialem adverbialen
accusative adverbialen adverbiale adverbiales adverbiale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der adverbiale die adverbiale das adverbiale die adverbialen
genitive des adverbialen der adverbialen des adverbialen der adverbialen
dative dem adverbialen der adverbialen dem adverbialen den adverbialen
accusative den adverbialen die adverbiale das adverbiale die adverbialen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein adverbialer eine adverbiale ein adverbiales (keine) adverbialen
genitive eines adverbialen einer adverbialen eines adverbialen (keiner) adverbialen
dative einem adverbialen einer adverbialen einem adverbialen (keinen) adverbialen
accusative einen adverbialen eine adverbiale ein adverbiales (keine) adverbialen

Further reading

  • “adverbial” in Duden online
  • “adverbial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French adverbial.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /advɛːbjal/

Adjective

adverbial

  1. adverbial

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

adverbial n (definite singular adverbialet, indefinite plural adverbial or adverbialer, definite plural adverbiala or adverbialene)

  1. adverbial (adverbial clause)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

adverbial n (definite singular adverbialet, indefinite plural adverbial, definite plural adverbiala)

  1. adverbial (adverbial clause)

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒi.veʁ.biˈaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veɦ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /a.d͡ʒi.veʁˈbjaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veɦˈbjaʊ̯], /ad͡ʒ.veʁ.biˈaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veɦ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ad͡ʒ.veʁˈbjaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veɦˈbjaʊ̯]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒi.veɾ.biˈaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veɾ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /a.d͡ʒi.veɾˈbjaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veɾˈbjaʊ̯], /ad͡ʒ.veɾ.biˈaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veɾ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ad͡ʒ.veɾˈbjaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veɾˈbjaʊ̯]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.d͡ʒi.veʁ.biˈaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veʁ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /a.d͡ʒi.veʁˈbjaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veʁˈbjaʊ̯], /ad͡ʒ.veʁ.biˈaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veʁ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ad͡ʒ.veʁˈbjaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veʁˈbjaʊ̯]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ad͡ʒ.veɻ.biˈaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veɻ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /ad͡ʒ.veɻˈbjaw/ [ad͡ʒ.veɻˈbjaʊ̯], /a.d͡ʒi.veɻ.biˈaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veɻ.bɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /a.d͡ʒi.veɻˈbjaw/ [a.d͡ʒi.veɻˈbjaʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dvɨɾˈbjal/ [ɐ.ðvɨɾˈβjaɫ]
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dbɨɾˈbjal/ [ɐ.ðβɨɾˈβjaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dvɨɾˈbja.li/ [ɐ.ðvɨɾˈβja.li]

Adjective

adverbial m or f (plural adverbiais)

  1. adverbial (of or relating to an adverb)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “adverbial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French adverbial, from Latin adverbiālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad.ver.biˈal/

Adjective

adverbial m or n (feminine singular adverbială, masculine plural adverbiali, feminine and neuter plural adverbiale)

  1. adverbial

Declension

Declension of adverbial
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite adverbial adverbială adverbiali adverbiale
definite adverbialul adverbiala adverbialii adverbialele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite adverbial adverbiale adverbiali adverbiale
definite adverbialului adverbialei adverbialilor adverbialelor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /adbeɾˈbjal/ [að̞.β̞eɾˈβ̞jal]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ad‧ver‧bial

Adjective

adverbial m or f (masculine and feminine plural adverbiales)

  1. adverbial

Derived terms

Further reading

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ad.vɛr.biˈɑːl/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːl

Noun

adverbial n

  1. an adverbial word or phrase

Declension

Declension of adverbial
nominative genitive
singular indefinite adverbial adverbials
definite adverbialet adverbialets
plural indefinite adverbial adverbials
definite adverbialen adverbialens
  • adverbialsats
  • rumsadverbial

Further reading

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