Arabic Adverbs
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Arabic Adverbs
Learning the Arabic Adverbs is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Arabic language. But first we need to know what the role of Adverbs is in the structure of the grammar in Arabic.
Arabic adverbs are part of speech. Generally they're words that modify any part of language other than a noun. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. In Arabic an adverb is mostly translated with an adverb in the 4th declension like هو يتكلمم كثيراً عن ابنه Huwa yatakallam kathiiran 3an ibnihi (he speaks a lot about his son). Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Arabic Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs | ظُرُوْف - thorowf |
| I read a book sometimes | أَقْرَأ كِتَابا احَيَانَا - aaqraa ketaaba ahaeeaanaa |
| I will never smoke | أَنَا لَن ادخّن ابَدَا - aanaa lan adkhn abadaa |
| are you alone? | هَل أَنْت وَحْدَك؟ - hal aant wahdak? |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Adverbs in Arabic has a logical pattern. Locate the Adverbs above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Arabic.
List of Adverbs in Arabic
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Arabic placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Arabic vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Arabic Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs of time | ظُرُوْف الْوَقْت - thorowf alwaqt |
| yesterday | أَمْس - aams |
| today | الْيَوْم - aleeawm |
| tomorrow | غَدا - ghada |
| now | الْآَن - alaan |
| then | ثُم - thom |
| later | فِيْمَا بَعْد - feeemaa ba'd |
| tonight | هَذِه الْلَّيْلَة - hatheh allaeelah |
| right now | فِي الْوَقْت الْحَالِي - feee alwaqt alhaaleee |
| last night | لَيْلَة أَمْس - laeelah aams |
| this morning | هَذَا الْصَّبَاح - hathaa alsabaah |
| next week | الْأُسْبُوْع الْمُقْبِل - alaosbow' almoqbel |
| already | سَابِقَا - saabeqaa |
| recently | مُؤَخَّرا - mo'akhara |
| lately | مُؤَخَّرا - mo'akhara |
| soon | قَرِيْبا - qareeeba |
| immediately | فَوْرَا - fawraa |
| still | لَا يَزَال - laa eeazaal |
| yet | بَعْد - ba'd |
| ago | مُنْذ - month |
| adverbs of place | ظُرُوْف مَكَان - thorowf makaan |
| here | هُنَا - honaa |
| there | هُنَاك - honaak |
| over there | هُنَاك - honaak |
| everywhere | فِي كُل مَكَان - feee kol makaan |
| anywhere | فِي أَي مَكَان - feee aaee makaan |
| nowhere | لَا مَكَان - laa makaan |
| home | مُنَزَّل - monazal |
| away | بَعِيْدا - ba'eeeda |
| out | خَارِج - khaarej |
| adverbs of manner | ظُرُوْف مِن الْطَّرِيْقَة - thorowf men altareeeqah |
| very | جَدَّا - jadaa |
| quite | تَمَامَا - tamaamaa |
| pretty | جَمِيْل - jameeel |
| really | حَقّا - haqa |
| fast | سَرِيْع - sareee' |
| well | جَيِّد - jaeeed |
| hard | الثَّابِت - althaabet |
| quickly | بِسُرْعَة - besor'ah |
| slowly | بِبُطْء - bebot' |
| carefully | بِعِنَايَة - be'enaaeeah |
| hardly | بِالْكَاد - bealkaad |
| barely | بِالْكَاد - bealkaad |
| mostly | فِي الْغَالِب - feee alghaaleb |
| almost | تَقْرَيْبَا - taqreeban |
| absolutely | إِطْلاقَا - eetlaqaa |
| together | مَعَا - ma'aa |
| alone | وَحْدَهَا - wahdahaa |
| adverbs of frequency | ظُرُوْف مِن الْتَّرَدُّد - thorowf men altaradod |
| always | دَائِمَا - daa'emaa |
| frequently | كَثِيْرا - katheeera |
| usually | عَادَة - 'aadah |
| sometimes | أَحْيَانا - aaheeaana |
| occasionally | أَحْيَانا - aaheeaana |
| seldom | نَادِرَا مَا - naaderaa maa |
| rarely | نَادِرا - naadera |
| never | أَبَدا - aabada |
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