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Learning the Chinese Adverbs displayed below is vital to the language. Chinese 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.
Adverbs also use de but then an other one placed behind the verb or yet an other de in an other construction. Lilke: 他流利地说英文 tā liú lì shuō de yīng wén or 他说英文说得很流利tā tā shuō yīng wén shuō de hěn liú lì. The first is before the noun, the latter after. Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Chinese Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs | fù cí - 副词 |
| I read a book sometimes | wǒ ǒu ěr kàn shū - 我偶尔看书 |
| I will never smoke | wǒ cóng bù chōu yān - 我从不抽烟 |
| are you alone? | nǐ yī gè rén ma？ - 你一个人吗？ |
Notice the structure of the Adverbs in Chinese has a logical pattern. Locate the Adverbs above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Mandarin.
While in English adverbs are usually formed by adding (-ly) to adjectives. In Mandarin many adverbs are formed from adjectives, simply by adding the suffix DE to adjectives.
Examples:
Man (slow) becomes man de (slowly)
Kuai (quick) becomes kuai de (quickly)
However that’s not always the case. Some words are adverbs by nature, For example , xian zai (now)
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Chinese placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Chinese vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Chinese Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs of time | shí jiān fù cí - 时间副词 |
| yesterday | zuó tiān - 昨天 |
| today | jīn tiān - 今天 |
| tomorrow | míng tiān - 明天 |
| now | xiàn zài - 现在 |
| then | rán hòu - 然后 |
| later | hòu lái - 后来 |
| tonight | jīn wǎn - 今晚 |
| right now | mǎ shàng， lì jí - 马上，立即 |
| last night | zuó wǎn - 昨晚 |
| this morning | jīn zǎo - 今早 |
| next week | xià zhōu - 下周 |
| already | yǐ jīng - 已经 |
| recently | zuì jìn - 最近 |
| lately | jìn lái - 近来 |
| soon | bù jiǔ - 不久 |
| immediately | lì jí - 立即 |
| still | réng - 仍 |
| yet | hái;huán， réng rán，shàng - 还， 仍然，尚 |
| ago | yǐ qián - 以前 |
| adverbs of place | dì diǎn fù cí - 地点副词 |
| here | zhè lǐ - 这里 |
| there | nà lǐ - 那里 |
| over there | zài nà biān - 在那边 |
| everywhere | dào chù - 到处 |
| anywhere | rèn hé de fāng - 任何地方 |
| nowhere | wú chù - 无处 |
| home | zài jiā， huí jiā - 在家，回家 |
| away | lí kāi， zǒu kāi - 离开，走开 |
| out | chū wài， zài wài， xiàng wài， lí qù - 出外， 在外，向外，离去 |
| adverbs of manner | fāng shì fù cí - 方式副词 |
| very | hěn， fēi cháng - 很，非常 |
| quite | xiāng dāng - 相当 |
| pretty | xiāng dāng，pō - 相当，颇 |
| really | zhēn zhèng de， què shí de - 真正地， 确实地 |
| fast | kuài sù de， xùn sù de - 快速地， 迅速地 |
| well | hǎo;hào - 好 |
| hard | nǔ lì dì;de - 努力地 |
| quickly | hěn kuài - 很快 |
| slowly | màn màn de - 慢慢地 |
| carefully | xiǎo xīn dì， rèn zhēn de - 小心地，认真地 |
| hardly | jī hū bù - 几乎不 |
| barely | jī hū bù - 几乎不 |
| mostly | dà bù fēn， zhǔ yào de - 大部分， 主要地 |
| almost | jī hū - 几乎 |
| absolutely | jué duì - 绝对 |
| together | yī qǐ - 一起 |
| alone | dān;chán - 单 |
| adverbs of frequency | pín dù fù cí - 频度副词 |
| always | zǒng shì - 总是 |
| frequently | cháng cháng， pín fán de， jīng cháng de - 常常，频繁地，经常地 |
| usually | tōng cháng， píng cháng - 通常，平常 |
| sometimes | yǒu shí - 有时 |
| occasionally | ǒu ěr - 偶尔 |
| seldom | hěn shǎo - 很少 |
| rarely | hěn shǎo - 很少 |
| never | cóng bù - 从不 |
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