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Jan 29 - Creating Adverbs by Adding '-mente' to Adjectives; Spanish lesson for beginners/Intermediate.

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How to create adverbs

As in English, Spanish adverbs are words that modify or describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. Also, as in English, there are countless adverbs that can be created from adjectives, and there are a fairly small number of adverbs that don't follow that pattern. In English, adverbs can be created from many adjectives simply by adding "-ly" at the end. In Spanish, it's almost as easy.

The rule is that the suffix -mente is added to the end of the feminine singular form of the adjective. Generally, the feminine singular form of the adjective is the same as the "basic" dictionary form (masculine singular) unless the adjective ends in an -o, in which case the -o is changed to an -a.


See the following examples:

Basic adjective: feliz (happy)

Singular feminine form**: feliz

Adverb: felizmente (happily)


Basic adjective: fácil (easy)

Singular feminine form: fácil

Adverb: fácilmente (easily)


Basic adjectivealegre (joyful)

Singular feminine form: alegre

Adverb: alegremente (joyfully)


**Basic adjective:*** nuevo (new)*

Singular feminine form:nueva

Adverb:nuevamente (newly)--

**Basic adjective:*** rápido (rapid)*

Singular feminine form: rápida

Adverb: rápidamente (rapidly)


Noteas in two of the examples above, that if an adjective has an accent mark, the corresponding adverb retains the accent mark, even though the spoken emphasis likely will be on the next-to-last syllable.


Adverbs in a series:

When two or more adverbs are used in a series, the -mente suffix is dropped from all but the last adverb.

Examples:

Habla lenta y claramente. She speaks slowly and clearly.

Anda cuidada, dolorosa y pacientemente. He walks carefully, painfully and patiently.


Could you provide examples using any one or more of these adverbs


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