Latin/Adverbs Lesson 2

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This week, we continue to add adverbs to our vocabulary. Some of the adverbs relating to time (soon, then, first, etc.) will be used more commonly with tenses other than the present, but we’ll have to make do with the present for now, and I have only limited sample sentences at this point. Also note that we won’t be teaching comparative adjectives or adverbs yet; where we would say in English, “very (adjective)”, the Latin would normally use a superlative adjective form instead. Latin does use intensifying adverbs like valdē and multum, but not as frequently as we do in English. Please also note that some of this lesson’s adverbs can cross over and be neuter nouns or adjectives; nimis, multum, satis, parum are commonly used as nouns; as nouns, they are usually accompanied by the genitive: too much, a lot, enough, too little OF something.

The difficulty of constructing conversational sentences is that there are many cases where it is hard to be sure if the Latin syntax we're presenting is authentic and true to the classical literature; we welcome any suggestions if you want to leave them as comments on the talk page.

Practice
Multum adverbōrum in hāc lectione habēmus! (We have a lot of adverbs in this lesson). It’s at least two lessons’ worth. We will move on to something else with the next lesson. There are more adverbs but it might be better to wait and introduce them in context as they come up, or do another adverbs lesson later on. For the present, valēte et habēte bonam fortūnam!