• Join
  • FAQ
  • How to learn Italian
  • Shop (online lessons)
  • Shop (ebooks)
  • Recent Articles
  • “Best of”
  • Sitemap
  • Other resources
  • Course Finder
  • Cookies and Privacy

Online Italian Club

  • Home
  • Start here
  • Six Levels!
  • Grammar
  • Listening
  • Conversation
  • Vocabulary
  • Dialogues
  • Verbs
  • Literature
  • History

Italian Grammar Lessons: Adverbs

This lesson is about what an adverb is and how most adverbs are formed in Italian grammar.

An adverb is an invariable part of the sentence (that means it cannot be declined for number, gender and case) and it determines, modifies the way an action is done or specifies something about a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

It usually answers to the question “How?” (“Come?” in italian).

Adverbs are formed by adding the suffix “-mente” to the feminine singular form of the adjective.

For example:

lento → lenta → lentamente

giusto → giusta → giustamente

felice → felice → felicemente

If the adjective ends in “-ile” or “-ale”, you simply add the suffix to the root of the adjective.

For example:

gentile → gentilmente (gently)

servile → servilmente (slavishly)

speciale → specialmente (especially)

generale → generalmente (generally)

It is important to note that not all the adjectives can turn into adverbs and that not all the adverbs are derived from adjectives!

As said, the adverbs can modify or specify the word to which they are referred.

It can be a verb:

Ex. Lui parla chiaramente (He speaks clearly)

Or an adjective:

Il fiore è veramente bello. (The flower is really beautiful)

Back to Italian lesson on: Adverbs

Contact us

logo of Imparareonline Ltd.
Imparareonline Ltd.
Registered in England, no. 8569282
Tregarth, The Gounce,
Perranporth, Cornwall
TR6 0JW
E-mail: info@imparareonline.co.uk

Cookies and Privacy

Read the Cookies and Privacy policy for all our websites.

Looking for something?

  • Free Italian Exercises
  • Online Italian Lessons
  • Italian Easy Readers

Don't know what to click? Sitemap

 

 

Learn other foreign languages for free?

Free Spanish Beginners' Course

Free German Beginners' Course

Free French Beginners' Course

© OnlineItalianClub.com 2017