Adverbs Making adverbs in Spanish is easy easy

Adverbs

Making adverbs in Spanish is easy, easy. However, we must first figure out how to use them in English! Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs: I walked slowly. -- “Slowly” modifies the verb. I walked how? Slowly.

Write this sentence. Yo soy fácilmente which translates I am easily. Does that make sense to you? They’re used in Spanish just like they are in English.

Adjective claro lento rápido fácil eficaz triste Adverb clear slow quick easy effective sad claramente lentamente rápidamente fácilmente eficazmente tristemente clearly slowly quickly easily effectively sadly If the adjective ends in an –o, you change the –o to an –a and add mente: mente lent o a If the adjective ends in anything else, you just add mente: mente triste fácil mente

And that’s all you need to know about forming adverbs. There’s just one little oddity about Spanish adverbs that you need to know but that doesn’t occur very often: If you have two or more adverbs ending in –mente in a row, you only put –mente on the last one: Corrimos fácil y rápidamente. You leave the first one in its adjective form. BUT it has to end in –a, not –o, since –a is what you would attach –mente to if you had to use –mente: Corrimos rápida (NOT rápido) y fácilmente.

And that’s it!