| Los Adverbios | Adverbs |
Spanish adverbs are usually formed by adding -mente to the end of feminine adjectives.
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alegremente | happily | → |
perfectamente | perfectly | ||
| fácilmente | easily | rápidamente | rapidly | ||||
| frecuentemente | frequently |
| Un día tú vas a hablar Español
perfectamente. One day you will speak Spanish perfectly. |
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| Ella habla rápidamente. She speaks quickly. |
If you use muy to emphasize an adverb, -mente is not added.
| Ella habla muy rápido. She speaks very quickly. |
Not all adverbs end in -mente.
| bien | well | mucho | much | |
| mal | badly | poco | little | |
| bastante | enough |
| Tú hablas muy bien. You speak very well. |
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| Alberto nunca se baña bien.† Alberto never bathes himself well. |
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| Por eso él siempre huela mal. That's why he always smells bad. |
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| Normalmente como poco,
pero a veces como mucho. Normally I eat little, but at times I eat a lot. |
† Se here is a reflexive pronoun and is used when the subject is doing something to himself/herself/itself.
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