ADVERB

Adverbs are words which describe the action of a verb, adjectives, or other adverbs: They show how, when and where things happen - e.g. "quickly", "often", "outside". You can usually recognise an adverb in English becuase it ends in "-ly" - e.g. "happily", "regularly", "completely". Adverbs typically express some relation of place, time, manner, cause, inference, result, condition, exception, concession, purpose, means, or even negation. The German negative nicht is an adverb.

Most adjectives can be used as adverbs without adding a suffix. In fact, when such adjectives are used as adverbs they have no endings at all:

• Anna is a healthy woman (= adjective).
  
• Anna ist eine gesunde Frau.
  
• "Metropolis" is a good film (= adjective).
  
• "Metropolis" ist ein guter Film.
  
• We eat very healthily (= adverb).
  
• Wir essen sehr gesund.
  
• I am very well (= adverb).
  
• Es geht mir gut.
  

They have been divided up into three groups which describe when, how and where things happen we call them adverbs of time, manner and place.

Adverbs of Time evening abends soon bald at that time damals then dann not until erst early früh yesterday gestern immediately [so]gleich today heute always immer now jetzt sometimes manchmal tomorrow morgen in the afternoon nachmittags at night nachts never nie never nimmer still noch now nun often oft already schon seldom selten immediately sofort late spät daily täglich mornings morgens

Adverbs of Place there da there dort outside draußen inside drinnen over there drüben along entlang distant fern out of heraus here hier away weg back zurück together zusammen left links near nahe nowhere nirgends above oben right rechts everywhere überall below unten before, in front voran far, widely weit behind hinten somewhere irgendwo