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Temporal adverbs dealing with theday

 Adverb Meaning

vorgestern the day beforeyesterday

gestern yesterday

heute today

morgen tomorrow

übermorgen

the day aftertomorrow

Subjective Temporal Adverbs

 Adverb Meaning

damals thenfrüher earlier

 jetzt now

sofort immediately

gleich immediately

bald soon

später later

dann after/then

Temporal adverb gerade

 The adverb gerade is used to make the

present continuous in German:

Ich lese

gerade die Zeitung

I am reading the newspaper

 Adverbs of FrequencyAdverbs of Absolute re!uency

 Adverb Meaning

immer always

fast immer almost alwaysmeistens most of the time

häu"g frequently

oft often

ab und zu once in a while

manchmal sometimes

selten rarely

fast nie almost never

nie never

Adverbs of daily fre!uency

 Adverb Meaning

morgens in the morning

nachmittags in the afternoon

abends in the evening

nachts during the night

Adverbs of wee#ly frecuency

 Adverb Meaning

montags on Mondays

dienstags on Tuesdays

mittwochs on Wednesdays

donnerstags on Thursdays

freitags on ridays

samstags on !aturdays

sonntags on !undays

$ther adverbs of fre!uency

 Adverb Meaning

täglich daily

w%chentlich weekly

monatlich monthly

 jährlich yearly/annually

orming temporal adverbs byadding an &s

"ften# temporal adverbs of frequency

are formed from nouns with an $%s$

added on& 't (rst# this construction

creates a bit of confusion among

students of German&

Noun Adverb

der 'bendthe evening

abend

sin the evenings

der )albtag

half a day

halbtags

half*day

der eiertagthe holiday

feiertagsevery holiday

'ocative Adverbs

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'ocative adverbs of place

 Adverb Meaning

vorn ( vorne in front

hinten behind

lin#s on the left

rechts on the right

oben up

unten down

innen inside

au)en outside

hier here

da there

dort there

überall everywhere

nirgends nowhere

+ocative adverbs with the particles

$hin$ and $her$& The particles $hin$ and

$her$ denote the direction of

movement with respect to the person

that is speaking& These particles are

used often to make adverbs&

)ere are some e,amples so that you

understand better:

hinein

If my child and I are outside of the house

and I want to tell him to go inside -for

e,ample# to do his chores.# Id say:

*eh hinein+

Go inside0

heraus

If I am outside of the house and my child is

inside and I want him to come out -for

e,ample# to cut the grass.# Id say:

,omm heraus+

1ome outside0

herein

If I am inside the house and my son is

playing in the garden and I want him to

come in -for e,ample# to eat.# Id say:

,omm herein+

1ome inside0

hinaus

If my child and I are inside the house and Iwant to tell him to go out -for e,ample# to

play in the garden.# Id say:

*eh hinaus+

Go outside0

'ocative adverbs that indicatemovement

 Adverb Meaning

aufwärts upwards

abwärts downwards

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vorwärts forwards

rüc#wärts backwards

heimwärts homeward

westwärts to the west

bergauf  uphill

bergab downhill

-onstruction of locative adverbs by

adding an &sIn German# locative adverbs are also

formed by adding an $%s$ to nouns&

Noun Locative adverb

das 2echteright

recht

sto the right

die +inke

left

lin#s

to the left

-ausal Adverbs

1ausal adverbs indicate the reason or

origin of an action&

 Adverb Meaning

deshalb therefore

darum therefore

deswegen therefore

folglich thus/consequently

daher therefore

1ausal adverbs serve as a connection

between two sentences# given that

theyre 3on4unktionaladverbien

Ich m%chte in .eutschland

leben/

deshalb lerne ich gerade

.eutsch

I would like to live in Germany#

therefore I am learning German

It must be emphasi5ed that adverbs

occupy a position and by placing them

at the beginning of a sentence# they

move the sub4ect to the 6rd position&

Main 'rticle: !entence structure

Adverbs of manner

 Adverb Meaning

erstens (rstly

zweitens secondly

drittens thirdly

auch also

ebenfalls as well

ansonsten otherwise

au)erdem in addition

0estrictive adverbs

 Adverb Meaning

nur only

wenigstens at least

hingegen on the other hand

Adverbs of !uantity

 Adverb Meaning

sehr very

#aum hardly

gern ( gerne

 The adverb $gern$ is used often in

German and its equivalent is $gladly$&

 The construction $Ich h7tte gern8$ is

very common in German and means $I

would like to$ and is used to politely

order something&

gern or gerne are e,actly the same

but gern is used more often&

1ronoun Adverbs

9ronoun adverbs are the combination

of a preposition and a pronoun and are

used only to refer to things -not for

living things.&

Adverbs 2da&2 3 preposition

 The adverbs $da*$ preposition are

used very often and their translation

depends greatly on the conte,t:

Ich habe nicht daran gedacht

I didnt think about that

 Adverb Meaning

daran -or dran.

at it -preposition an.

darauf  -ordrauf.

on it -prepositionauf .

daraus from it -prepositionaus.

dabei present -preposition

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bei.

dagegen against it-preposition gegen.

darin in it -preposition in.

damit with it -prepositionmit.

darüber about it -preposition;ber.

darum therefore-preposition um.

dazu additionally-preposition 5u.

 The prepositions are not e,actly the

same in German and <nglish and thus

the translation is not e,act& 1heck out

prepositions to get the best translationin every case&

Adverbs hier 3 preposition

 The adverbs $hier*$ preposition have

practically the same meaning as

adverbs da $preposition$ though

they are used much less often& Their

meaning depends greatly on the

conte,t&

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 Adver b

  Meaning

hieran at this -preposition an.

hierauf  on this -preposition auf .

hieraus from this -prepositionaus.

hierbei with this or at this-preposition bei.

hiergegen

against this -prepositiongegen.

hierin in this -preposition in.

hiermit with this -prepositionmit.

hierübe

r

about this -preposition

;ber.hierzu for this -preposition 5u.

Interrogative adverbs

Main article: Interrogative particles

 The most important interrogative adverbs are:

Wann -when.

Warum -why.

Wieso -why.

Wie -how.

Wie alt -howold.

Wie viel -how

much/many.

Wie lange -how

long.

Wie oft -how

often.

Wie teuer -how

e,pensive.

Wo -where.

Woran-whereof.

Worauf

-where

upon.

Woraus

-what from.

Wobei -in

which/

whereat.

Wor;ber

-whatabout.

Worum

-what

about.

Wo5u

-what for.

Wohin

-where

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Wie weit -how

far.

Wogegen

-against

what.

Worin

-wherein.

Womit

-where by.

to.

Woher

-from

where.

-omparative and superlative with adverbs

!ome adverbs can make comparatives and superlatives like ad4ective& This is the case with $bald$# $gern$# $oft$# and $wohl$&

 Adverb Comparative Superlative

baldsoon

ehersooner

am ehestensoonest

gerngladly

lieberpreferably

am liebstenmost preferably

oftoften

%ftermore often

am häu"gstenmost often

wohlwell

wohlerbetter

am wohlstenbest