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Meaning of "adverbial" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADVERBIAL

adverbial  [ædˈvɜːbɪəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADVERBIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adverbial can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ADVERBIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Adverbial

In grammar an adverbial is a word or a group of words that modifies or tells us something about the sentence or the verb. Look at the examples below: Danny speaks fluently. Lorna ate breakfast yesterday morning.

Definition of adverbial in the English dictionary

The definition of adverbial in the dictionary is a word or group of words playing the grammatical role of an adverb, such as in the rain in the sentence I'm singing in the rain. Other definition of adverbial is of or relating to an adverb or adverbial.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ADVERBIAL


antimicrobial
ˌæntɪmaɪˈkrəʊbɪəl
bilabial
baɪˈleɪbɪəl
cambial
ˈkæmbɪəl
connubial
kəˈnjuːbɪəl
dentilabial
ˌdɛntɪˈleɪbɪəl
labial
ˈleɪbɪəl
microbial
maɪˈkrəʊbɪəl
nonmicrobial
ˌnɒnˌmaɪˈkrəʊbɪəl
procambial
prəʊˈkæmbɪəl
proverbial
prəˈvɜːbɪəl
rhizobial
raɪˈzəʊbɪəl
saprobial
səˈprəʊbɪəl
stibial
ˈstɪbɪəl
tibial
ˈtɪbɪəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADVERBIAL

adverb
adverbialise
adverbialize
adverbially
advergaming
adversaria
adversarial
adversaries
adversariness
adversary
adversative
adversatively
adverse
adverse possession
adverse pressure gradient
adversely
adverseness
adversities
adversity
advert

WORDS THAT END LIKE ADVERBIAL

artificial
commercial
crucial
dial
especial
essential
facial
financial
industrial
initial
material
memorial
official
potential
residential
serial
social
special
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Synonyms and antonyms of adverbial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «adverbial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADVERBIAL

Find out the translation of adverbial to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adverbial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adverbial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

状语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adverbial
570 millions of speakers

English

adverbial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

adverbial
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الظرف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наречия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adverbial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্রিয়া-বিশেষণিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adverbial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Adverbial
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

adverbial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

副詞の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Adverbial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về trạng từ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வினைதழுவிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रियाविशेषलेखक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zarf
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avverbiale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przysłówkowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прислівники
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adverbial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

επίρρημα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bywoordelike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

adverbial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

adverbial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adverbial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADVERBIAL»

The term «adverbial» is regularly used and occupies the 83.528 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADVERBIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «adverbial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «adverbial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adverbial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADVERBIAL»

Discover the use of adverbial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adverbial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Constituent Syntax: Adverbial Phrases, Adverbs, Mood, Tense
Topics treated in this volume include adverbs, adverbial phrases, mood/modality and tense/aspect. Chapters are distinguished by their depth of treatment, clear style and ample illustration with original citations.
Philip Baldi, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, 2010
2
Adverbial Clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, and Composition of ...
Uses the cartographic theory to examine the left periphery of the English clause and compare it to the left-peripheral structures of other languages.
Liliane Haegeman, 2012
3
Adverbial Constructions in the Languages of Europe
This is part of a series of nine volumes publishing the results of the research project "Typology of Languages in Europe" (EUROTYP)--based on a 1988 workshop by the Standing Committee for the Humanities, the European Science Foundation, and ...
Johan van der Auwera, Dónall Ó Baoill, 1998
4
Adverbial Clauses in Scots: A Semantic-syntactic Study
She provides a comprehensive syntactic and semantic description of adverbial clauses in present-day Scots in both written and spoken form, compares it with the analog in standard English and in other European languages that have influenced ...
Martina H Cker, 1999
5
Adverbial Subordination in English: A Functional Approach
Contents: List of Tables.
Mar?a Jes? P?rez Quintero, 2002
6
Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces
Review text: "[...] the book succeeds excellently in covering the entire descriptive array of facts about adverbs and a sizeable portion of other adverbial expressions, together with numerous aspects of their theoretical analysis. [...] ...
Katalin É Kiss, 2009
7
Grammar in Interaction: Adverbial Clauses in American ...
Cecilia E. Ford explores the question: what work do adverbial clauses do in conversational interaction?
Cecilia E. Ford, 1993
8
Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The ...
"This book approaches depictive secondary predication from a crosslinguistic perspective.
Nikolaus Himmelmann, Eva Schultze-Berndt, 2006
9
Adverbs and Adverbial Constructions in Old Anatolian Turkish
The objective of this work is to define and establish the class of adverbs in Old Anatolian Turkish (OAT) as a solid grammatical category.
Fikret Turan, 2000
10
Word-Class Flexibility in Classical Chinese: Verbal and ...
This book seeks to interpret the notorious word-class flexibility in Classical Chinese in a new way, based on a multi-disciplinary perspective and the theoretical background of cognitive linguistics.
Lukas Zadrapa, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADVERBIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adverbial is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Word Guy: Can 'real' replace 'really' in talk or text?
But in formal writing, shun the adverbial “real.” Q: Is it “to the manor born” or “to the manner born”? — Moreland Houck, Trenton, N.J.. The latter. «Tribune-Review, Jul 15»
2
Review: Israel Since the Six-Day War
No adjective or noun escapes without further adverbial qualification. Platitudes and tautologies abound, typical being "Al-Husseini was in effect ... «Jewish Chronicle, Jun 15»
3
Preamble should come first in high court's redistricting decision
Prior decisions have indeed been based on the Preamble, but they have all referred to the adverbial modifier (the list of infinitives introduced by ... «Arizona Daily Star, Jun 15»
4
The Learning Network | Do You Say 'Kind of, Sort of' More Than You …
It's about sort of, and its twin, kind of, and how these adverbial downtoners, as the British grammarian Sir Randolph Quirk calls them, have ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
For some tea party leaders, Legislature's brew was weak
The adverbial phrase is generally defined as “without a day specified for a future meeting.” So it has come to signify the last day of the ... «Dallas Morning News, Jun 15»
6
Call it “sine dee-ay” or “sigh-nee die,” everyone in Austin longs to …
When the gavels come down in the House and Senate on Monday, both will adjourn “sine die.” The adverbial phrase is generally defined as ... «Dallas Morning News, Jun 15»
7
Philantopia: Lots of meaning in Aspen Words
... correlative conjunctions, adverbial phrases, genitive cases, simple tenses, split infinitives and passive voices into compound sentences with ... «Aspen Times, May 15»
8
Column: It's an adverbial clause
When my wife, Susie and I married back in the mid 20th century, the noun “family” and the verb “planning” were very seldom ever used in the ... «Reporter-Times, May 15»
9
Gretna Officials Say Slots Will Make The City A Winner
“For those English grammar majors out there, they will know that what that is is an adverbial modifier and an adverbial modifier has to modify a ... «WFSU, May 15»
10
1st District Court of Appeal hears arguments in Gretna slots case
“For all those grammar nerds out there, they'll know that that is adverbial modifier: it has to modify a verb, not a noun. In this instance, it modifies ... «SaintPetersBlog, May 15»

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