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The 100 most common adverbs in French 🇫🇷
French adverbs ranked by how often they appear, each with its translation and an example sentence. Press the speaker to hear a word.
| # | French | English | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plus | more, -er | Plus je vois, plus je veux.The more I see, the more I want. |
| 2 | non | no | |
| 3 | avec | too, also | Il en est vraiment content. —Bien, moi avec.He's really happy about it. —Well, me too. |
| 4 | oui | yes | |
| 5 | tout | all | |
| 6 | ici | here | |
| 7 | alors | then | |
| 8 | très | very | |
| 9 | aussi | too, also, as well | Dans le bois, quand mon fils dormait et que tu dormais aussi, j’ai failli t’embrasser tout doucement.In the wood, when my son was sleeping and you were sleeping too, I almost kissed you softly. |
| 10 | jamais | never | |
| 11 | pourquoi | why | |
| 12 | encore | still | |
| 13 | toujours | always | Parfois, peut-ĂŞtre mĂŞme souvent, mais certainement pas toujoursSometimes, maybe even often, but certainly not always |
| 14 | maintenant | now, currently | |
| 15 | vraiment | truly, really, genuinely | Elle est vraiment belle.She is really beautiful. |
| 16 | comment | how | |
| 17 | mĂŞme | even | |
| 18 | peut-ĂŞtre | maybe, perhaps | Peut-ĂŞtre que je vais bientĂ´t partir.Maybe I will leave soon. |
| 19 | peu | little, not very much/many | Il est peu intelligent.He is not very intelligent. |
| 20 | trop | too, too much | La soupe est trop chaude.The soup is too hot. |
| 21 | déjà | already | |
| 22 | beaucoup | much, very much, a lot | |
| 23 | donc | therefore, consequently, thus | Je pense, donc je suis.I think, therefore I am. |
| 24 | après | afterwards | |
| 25 | avant | beforehand, earlier | |
| 26 | vite | quickly | |
| 27 | depuis | ever since, since then | |
| 28 | demain | tomorrow | Demain c’est dimanche.Tomorrow is Sunday. |
| 29 | assez | enough | T’as mis la barre assez haut.You set the bar pretty high. |
| 30 | combien | how much | Est-ce que tu crois que l’on oublie ? Combien de temps faut-il attendre ? Combien de nuits pour désapprendre à se retourner dans son lit ?Do you believe that one forgets? How long [lit. how much time] must one wait? How many nights to break the habit of rolling over in one's bed? |
| 31 | tant | so much | |
| 32 | aujourd'hui | today | |
| 33 | tard | late | Je ne pense qu’à aujourd’hui. C’est trop tard pour hier.I'm thinking only of today. It's too late for yesterday. |
| 34 | longtemps | for a long time, over a long period | Ça fait longtemps que ton frère habite chez toi ?Has your brother been living at your place for a long time? |
| 35 | seulement | only | |
| 36 | enfin | finally, in the end | Il sait ce qu’il doit faire, enfin c’est ce que j’espère.He knows what he has to do, or so I hope. |
| 37 | lĂ -bas | there, over there | |
| 38 | puis | then, after, next | |
| 39 | ensemble | together | Pour sûr que l’on est bien ensemble.We sure are good together. |
| 40 | loin | far, distant | L’église est si loin de l’usine.The church is so far from the factory. |
| 41 | hier | yesterday | […] car il nous appartient que les choses changent dans le sens du meilleur, d’un meilleur peut-être précaire, et qui pourrait s’énoncer par cette maxime : mieux que rien, mieux qu’hier et mieux qu’aujourd’hui.[…] because it's up to us to change things for the better — a perhaps precarious better — and which could be stated by this maxim: better than nothing, better than yesterday, and better than today. |
| 42 | plutôt | earlier, sooner | Je n’aime pas le rouge. Je prends plutôt le noir.I don't like the red one. I'll take the black one instead. |
| 43 | ainsi | in this way, thus | |
| 44 | bientĂ´t | soon | |
| 45 | tellement | so, so much, very | Il est tellement bon !He is so good! |
| 46 | presque | almost | |
| 47 | dehors | outside | Le spectacle se déroule dehors, et c’est gratuit.The show will take place outside, and it's free. |
| 48 | d'abord | first, at first, right away | Okay, d’abord.Okay, then. |
| 49 | parfois | sometimes | |
| 50 | autant | so much | Pourquoi travaillez-vous autant ?Why do you work so much? |
| 51 | surtout | above all | |
| 52 | exactement | exactly, quite | |
| 53 | partout | everywhere | |
| 54 | souvent | often | |
| 55 | près | near , close | |
| 56 | sûrement | surely, certainly | |
| 57 | tĂ´t | early | |
| 58 | ailleurs | elsewhere, somewhere else | Si vous ne voulez pas que je sois ici, j’irai ailleurs.If you don't want me here, I'll go elsewhere. |
| 59 | ensuite | in turn, subsequently, thereafter, then | |
| 60 | dessus | on | |
| 61 | complètement | completely | |
| 62 | derrière | behind | |
| 63 | doucement | softly | |
| 64 | pourtant | however, yet | Pourtant, ce qui l’inquiétait le plus, c’était de ne pas se voir armé chevalier ; car il lui semblait qu’il ne pouvait légitimement s’engager dans aucune aventure sans avoir reçu l’ordre de chevalerie.However, what worried him the most was not having been dubbed a knight; for it seemed to him that he could not legitimately engage in any adventure without having received the order of knighthood. |
| 65 | debout | standing, stood up, upright | |
| 66 | absolument | absolutely, totally, completely | |
| 67 | autour | around | |
| 68 | simplement | simply | |
| 69 | dedans | towards the inside, inwardly, internally | |
| 70 | lĂ -dedans | inside there | |
| 71 | probablement | probably | |
| 72 | là -haut | up there | À faire une escale tout là -haut, à nourrir le calme tout là -haut ; on ne joue plus d’artifices, on sait pourquoi on existe enfin.To make a stop way up there, to nurture calm way up there; we don't play any more tricks, we finally know why we exist. |
| 73 | justement | precisely, exactly, accurately | Regardez de près ce qui s’est passé dans ces dernières années : presque tout le monde a fait justement ce qu’il fallait le moins faire. 1920, Mercure de France, t. 142 Qu’est-ce que le bolchévisme ?Look recently at what has happened over the last [few] years: almost everybody's done just what they shouldn't [have] |
| 74 | immédiatement | immediately | |
| 75 | environ | about, close to, around | un salaire annuel d’environ 7 millions d’eurosan annual salary of around 7 million euros |
| 76 | certainement | certainly | |
| 77 | finalement | finally, last, lastly | |
| 78 | parfaitement | perfectly | |
| 79 | au-dessus | above | |
| 80 | apparemment | apparently | |
| 81 | autrement | otherwise | |
| 82 | heureusement | luckily, fortunately | |
| 83 | sérieusement | seriously | |
| 84 | désormais | henceforth, from now on | |
| 85 | lors | then, at that time | |
| 86 | malheureusement | unfortunately | |
| 87 | franchement | frankly, sincerely | |
| 88 | également | equally | |
| 89 | lĂ -dessus | on this, here | |
| 90 | pis | worse | |
| 91 | auprès | nearby | |
| 92 | davantage | more | |
| 93 | totalement | totally | |
| 94 | évidemment | of course, evidently, obviously | |
| 95 | autrefois | previously, formerly , erstwhile | |
| 96 | facilement | easily | |
| 97 | directement | directly | |
| 98 | rapidement | speedily, quickly | |
| 99 | lentement | slowly | |
| 100 | forcément | inevitably |