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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

TABLE: Typical manner adverbs

Examples

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

Related Lessons

• 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