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The 400 most common adverbs in French 🇫🇷
304 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 | Ă©galement | equally | |
| 89 | lĂ -dessus | on this, here | |
| 90 | pis | worse | |
| 91 | auprès | nearby | |
| 92 | davantage | more | |
| 93 | totalement | totally | |
| 94 | Ă©videmment | 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 | |
| 101 | uniquement | uniquely | |
| 102 | récemment | recently | |
| 103 | naturellement | naturally | |
| 104 | normalement | in theory | |
| 105 | cependant | meanwhile | |
| 106 | amen | amen | |
| 107 | volontiers | willingly, gladly, with pleasure | Il Ă©coutera volontiers cette proposition.He will gladly listen to that proposal. |
| 108 | profondément | deeply, profoundly | |
| 109 | clairement | clearly | |
| 110 | personnellement | personally | |
| 111 | suffisamment | sufficiently, enough | Il fait suffisamment chaud.It is sufficiently warm./It is warm enough. |
| 112 | réellement | really, genuinely, in fact | |
| 113 | dessous | underneath, beneath | |
| 114 | entièrement | entirely | |
| 115 | guère | hardly, barely | Je ne comprends guère le français.I hardly understand French. |
| 116 | vachement | bloody, extremely | Il est vachement beau.He is bloody handsome. |
| 117 | certes | certainly, surely, decidedly, definitely | |
| 118 | particulièrement | particularly, specifically | |
| 119 | extrĂŞmement | extremely | |
| 120 | pratiquement | practically | |
| 121 | auparavant | beforehand, previously | |
| 122 | rarement | rarely, seldom | |
| 123 | sincèrement | sincerely, truly | |
| 124 | effectivement | indeed | |
| 125 | aussitĂ´t | immediately | |
| 126 | tranquillement | calmly | |
| 127 | précisément | in a precise manner, without approximation | Mon jeune âge, précisément, me forçait à imaginer l’avenir en fonction de moi-même et d’une certaine recherche du bonheur.Precisely because of my young age, I could not help but imagine the future according to myself and a certain search for happiness. |
| 128 | énormément | enormously | |
| 129 | honnĂŞtement | honestly | |
| 130 | nan | Informal spelling of non , nah, nope | |
| 131 | terriblement | terribly, in a way that is terrible | |
| 132 | quelquefois | sometimes | |
| 133 | après-demain | the day after tomorrow | |
| 134 | jadis | long ago, once, yesteryear, in times past, yore | |
| 135 | précédemment | before, before now | |
| 136 | actuellement | currently | |
| 137 | gentiment | friendly, kindly | |
| 138 | dernièrement | recently, lately, of late | |
| 139 | correctement | correctly | |
| 140 | drĂ´lement | funnily | |
| 141 | officiellement | officially | |
| 142 | infiniment | infinitely, ad infinitum | |
| 143 | carrément | squarely, at right angles | La poste se trouve carrément au centre de la villeThe post office is right smack in the middle of the town. |
| 144 | spécialement | especially, specially | |
| 145 | définitivement | definitively, for good, once and for all | |
| 146 | ouah | yeah, yep, yup | |
| 147 | contrairement | contrarily, oppositely | |
| 148 | physiquement | physically | |
| 149 | différemment | differently | |
| 150 | attentivement | attentively | |
| 151 | constamment | constantly | |
| 152 | Ă©ternellement | eternally | |
| 153 | quant | Only used in quant Ă | |
| 154 | jusque-lĂ | up to there | |
| 155 | généralement | generally, in general | |
| 156 | quasiment | practically, almost | |
| 157 | voire | truly | |
| 158 | cash | in cash | |
| 159 | dorénavant | henceforth, from now on, from this day forward | |
| 160 | bizarrement | bizarrely | |
| 161 | soudainement | suddenly | |
| 162 | visiblement | visibly | |
| 163 | librement | freely, without restrictions | |
| 164 | sur-le-champ | on the spot, immediately, right away | |
| 165 | calmement | calmly | |
| 166 | avant-hier | two days ago, the day before yesterday | |
| 167 | hyper | very, a lot | Tu es hyper sympa!You are very nice! |
| 168 | gravement | seriously, badly | |
| 169 | techniquement | technically | |
| 170 | gratuitement | freely, for free | |
| 171 | légèrement | lightly | |
| 172 | sacrément | bloody, incredibly, really | |
| 173 | largement | mainly, mostly | |
| 174 | vivement | forcefully, vigorously | |
| 175 | discrètement | discreetly, discretely | |
| 176 | manifestement | obviously | |
| 177 | régulièrement | regularly | |
| 178 | tantĂ´t | soon, shortly | On le voit tantĂ´t.We're seeing him shortly. |
| 179 | incroyablement | unbelievably | |
| 180 | premièrement | firstly, in the first place | |
| 181 | alias | alias | |
| 182 | toutefois | however, nonetheless | |
| 183 | littéralement | literally | |
| 184 | mollo | softly, gently | |
| 185 | légalement | legally | |
| 186 | néanmoins | however | |
| 187 | strictement | strictly | Ca n’a strictement rien avoir avec toi. Tu t’occupes de tes fesses!This has absolutely nothing to do with you. Go mind your own business! |
| 188 | brusquement | suddenly | |
| 189 | hautement | highly, very | |
| 190 | back | back | Dis trois je vous salue Marie, et je veux point te voir icitte back Ă voler du plywood.Say three hail Maries, and I don't want to see you back here stealing plywood. |
| 191 | alentour | around | |
| 192 | vaguement | vaguely | |
| 193 | sexuellement | sexually | |
| 194 | deuxièmement | secondly | |
| 195 | bĂŞtement | stupidly, idiotically | |
| 196 | proprement | properly | |
| 197 | relativement | relatively | |
| 198 | gratis | free, without charge, gratis | |
| 199 | subitement | suddenly | |
| 200 | mentalement | mentally | |
| 201 | fortement | strongly, powerfully | |
| 202 | follement | madly, insanely | |
| 203 | primo | first | |
| 204 | désespérément | desperately | |
| 205 | entre-temps | Alternative form of entretemps | |
| 206 | habituellement | usually, habitually | |
| 207 | séparément | separately | |
| 208 | purement | purely, completely, totally | |
| 209 | gratos | for free, without costing money | |
| 210 | décidément | obviously, really | |
| 211 | Ă©trangement | strangely | |
| 212 | delĂ | beyond | |
| 213 | difficilement | with difficulty, difficultly | |
| 214 | longuement | for a long time | |
| 215 | merveilleusement | wonderfully, brilliantly, amazingly | |
| 216 | principalement | mainly, principally | |
| 217 | sitĂ´t | immediately | |
| 218 | volontairement | intentionally, voluntarily | |
| 219 | ici-bas | down here, here below | |
| 220 | soigneusement | carefully | |
| 221 | pleinement | completely, all over | |
| 222 | tendrement | tenderly | |
| 223 | mutuellement | reciprocally, to each other | |
| 224 | accidentellement | accidentally | |
| 225 | nécessairement | necessarily, inevitably, consequently | |
| 226 | poliment | politely | |
| 227 | durement | sternly, harshly | |
| 228 | horriblement | horribly | |
| 229 | secrètement | secretly, in secret | |
| 230 | assurément | assuredly, in an assured fashion | |
| 231 | nettement | neatly, cleanly, clearly | Dans mes rêves, les images visuelles ont à peu près les mêmes caractères de vague et d’indécision; en général les objets sont vus plus nettement que les personnages, les mots plus que les objets, les dessins , les cartes plus nettement encore.In my dreams, visual images have about the same characteristics of vagueness and indecision; in general objects are seen more clearly than characters, words more than objects, designs and maps more clearly yet. |
| 232 | affreusement | dreadfully , horribly | |
| 233 | délibérément | deliberately | |
| 234 | par-ci | Only used in par-ci, par-lĂ | |
| 235 | conformément | accordingly | |
| 236 | brutalement | brutally | |
| 237 | violemment | violently | |
| 238 | prudemment | prudently | |
| 239 | politiquement | politically | |
| 240 | quasi | almost, nearly | |
| 241 | Ă l'improviste | unexpectedly | |
| 242 | temporairement | temporarily | |
| 243 | automatiquement | automatically | |
| 244 | fermement | firmly, strongly, tightly | |
| 245 | gaiement | gaily | |
| 246 | théoriquement | theoretically | |
| 247 | sus | up | |
| 248 | aisément | easily | |
| 249 | ouvertement | openly, overtly | |
| 250 | Ă©ventuellement | possibly, maybe, perhaps, if you want | |
| 251 | publiquement | publicly | |
| 252 | sévèrement | severely | |
| 253 | rudement | hard, violently | |
| 254 | sagement | wisely, sagely | |
| 255 | hui | today | |
| 256 | salement | dirty, dirtily | |
| 257 | atrocement | atrociously | |
| 258 | humblement | humbly | |
| 259 | scientifiquement | scientifically | |
| 260 | financièrement | financially | |
| 261 | notamment | notably | |
| 262 | illico | pronto, right away | |
| 263 | joliment | prettily, cutely | |
| 264 | instantanément | instantaneously | |
| 265 | dangereusement | dangerously | |
| 266 | paisiblement | peacefully | |
| 267 | indéfiniment | indefinitely | |
| 268 | exclusivement | exclusively | |
| 269 | concrètement | concretely, solidly | |
| 270 | méchamment | nastily, meanly, cruelly | |
| 271 | fondamentalement | fundamentally | |
| 272 | mortellement | fatally, lethally, mortally | |
| 273 | véritablement | really, truly | |
| 274 | convenablement | appropriately | |
| 275 | inconsciemment | unwittingly, unknowingly | |
| 276 | moralement | morally | |
| 277 | brièvement | briefly | |
| 278 | curieusement | curiously | |
| 279 | génétiquement | genetically | |
| 280 | impunément | with impunity | |
| 281 | fixement | fixedly | |
| 282 | illégalement | illegally | |
| 283 | incognito | incognito | |
| 284 | lourdement | heavily | |
| 285 | idem | idem, likewise | |
| 286 | typiquement | typically | |
| 287 | fissa | snappy | |
| 288 | inutilement | uselessly, unnecessarily | |
| 289 | généreusement | generously | |
| 290 | dignement | worthily, fittingly, with dignity | |
| 291 | solennellement | solemnly | |
| 292 | comptant | cash | |
| 293 | patiemment | patiently | |
| 294 | maxi | maximum, maximally | |
| 295 | calmos | calmly | |
| 296 | grièvement | seriously | Il est grièvement blessé.He is seriously injured. |
| 297 | psychologiquement | psychologically | |
| 298 | continuellement | continuously | |
| 299 | tristement | sadly, gloomily, sorrowfully | Un mort s’en allait tristement s’emparer de son dernier gîte […]A dead man was going sorrowfully to take possession of his final resting-place […] |
| 300 | essentiellement | essentially | |
| 301 | approximativement | roughly, approximately | |
| 302 | secundo | secondly | |
| 303 | mystérieusement | mysteriously | |
| 304 | grandement | greatly, largely, deeply |