Adverb
The adverb in Slovene is always the same as the singular neuter form of any given adjective if derived from an adjective.
- "Dan je bil lep." (The day was nice.) - masculine adjective
- "Bilo je lepo." (It was nice.) - neuter adjective
—> "Imeli smo se lepo." (literally, "We had ourselves nicely.", the meaning is 'We had a nice time.')
—> "Govorili so lepo." (They spoke nicely.)
Other types of adverb are derived from nouns (doma (at home), jeseni (in autumn)), prepositional constructions (naglas (aloud), pozimi (in winter), potem (then)), verbs (nevede (unknowingly), skrivoma (secretly), mimogrede (by the way)) or numerals (see adverbial numeral).
In essence, there are four main types of adverb: adverbs of time (danes (today), večno (perpetually)), adverbs of place (domov (towards home, homewards)), adverbs of manner (grdo (uglily), povsem (entirely)) and adverbs of cause and reason (nalašč (on purpose)).
Adverbs are, much like adjectives, normally gradable.
- To je storil natančno. (This he did carefully.)
- Naslednjič pa še natančneje. (The next time, however, more carefully still.)
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