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Manner adverbs
Adverbs which describe the manner in which something is done are manner adverbs:
- Je dors bien
I sleep well
- Les choses tournent mal
Things are turning out badly
Finish this lesson and explore these related pages: Possessive determiners, Omission of the article, Polite Form & Direct object quantifiers and « en ».
TABLE: Typical manner adverbs[edit | edit source]
Examples[edit | edit source]
Representative examples:
- Il s'est toujours comporté ainsi
He always behaved like that
- Tu chantes bien
You sing well
- Mets-toi debout
Stand up
- Il a mal lu l'étiquette
He misread the label
- Hier soir ça n'allait guère mieux
It was hardly any better yesterday evening
- Je l'oublierai très facilement
I'll forget it very easily
- Elle étendait soigneusement son tailleur
She carefully laid out her suit
Video: How to form French Adverbs of Manner[edit | edit source]
Videos[edit | edit source]
French Lesson 99 - Adverbs of manner - YouTube[edit | edit source]
How to form French Adverbs of Manner - YouTube[edit | edit source]
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Nouns which refer both to males and to females
- Use of il, ce, cela and ça as impersonal pronouns
- Directly transitive verbs take the auxiliary “avoir”
- Ordinal numbers
- Function of adverbs
- Easy way of generating the simple past
- Choice of some time adverbs relative to the moment of speaking
- Pronominal verbs and body parts
- Position of object pronouns with imperatives
- Negation
- Adjectives modified by adverbs and prepositional phrases
- “être” and “avoir” with verbs used intransitively and transitively
- Subject verb agreement
- Often Mistaken Gender of Nouns
- Conjugation group 3 — verbs with infinitives which end in —re