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Adverbs ending in —(é)ment derived from past participles

Adverbs can also be formed in a similar way from the masculine form of past participles:

Verb	English	past participle	English	Adverb
aveugler	to blind	aveuglé	aveuglément	blindly
conformer	to conform	conformé	conformément	in order
forcer	to force	forcé	forcément	necessarily
préciser	to make precise	precise	précisément	precisely

In a similar, but irregular, vein we find:

Adjective	English	Adverb	English
impuni	unpunished	impunément	with impunity

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• Gender
• Summary table of articles
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• on as an alternative to the English passive
• Omission of plural indefinite des after the preposition de
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• Pronominal verbs, the auxiliary “être” and the agreement of the past participle
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• Omission of the article in participle + noun constructions linked by de
• Mass versus count nouns
• Pronominal Verbs Agreement
• Use of the definite article with quantities