120 Common French Adverbs to Make Your French Sound More Interesting

November 8, 2017
/ French vocabulary and expression Intermediate Level Intermediate Vocabulary
/ By Frederic Bibard

Adverbs play a vital role in sentences. It modifies verbs and adjectives and adds the necessary detail to help you fully understand a certain conversation point.
If you need a bit more of background on French adverbs, head over to this Simple Guide to French Adverbs to review what adverbs are, the different types, how they are formed, and their placement in a sentence.
Here in this article, I prepared a list of some of the most common French adverbs that you can make use of to add color to your speech.

Here's the list!

	French Adverbs	English Translation
1	absolument	absolutely
2	actuellement	currently
3	ailleurs	elsewhere
4	alors	so
5	ainsi	thus; so
6	après	after
7	assez	quite, fairly
8	aujourd'hui	today
9	aussi	as; as well
10	aussitôt	immediately
11	autant	as much
12	autrefois	in the old days
13	autrement	differently
14	autour	around
15	avant	before
16	avant-hier	on the day before yesterday
17	avec	with
18	beaucoup	a lot
19	bas	low
20	bien	well
21	bientôt	soon
22	brusquement	abruptly
23	cependant	nonetheless
24	certes	admittedly
25	certainement	certainly
26	ci	here
27	combien	how much/many
28	comme	as
29	comment	how
30	complètement	completely
31	d'abord	first
32	davantage	more
33	debout	standing
34	dehors	outside
35	déjà	already
36	delà	beyond
37	demain	tomorrow
38	depuis	since
39	dernièrement	lately
40	désormais	from now on, henceforth
41	dessus	on top of
42	devant	in front of
43	doucement	softly
44	également	as well/equally
45	encore	again/still
46	enfin	finally; eventually
47	ensemble	together
48	ensuite	next, then
49	énormément	enormously
50	environ	about
51	facilement	easily
52	franchement	frankly
53	gentiment	kindly
54	guère	hardly
55	haut	high
56	heureusement	fortunately
57	hier	yesterday
58	ici	here
59	immédiatement	immediately
60	jamais	never
61	là	there
62	là-bas	over there
63	là-dedans	in here, in there
64	là-dessus	on here; on there
65	largement	greatly; well
66	légèrement	lightly; slightly
67	lentement	slowly
68	loin	far
69	longtemps	for a long time
70	lors	when
71	lors de	during
72	maintenant	now
73	mal	poorly; badly
74	même	even
75	moins	less
76	mieux	better
77	naturellement	naturally
78	ne	not
79	non	no; not
80	oui	yes
81	parfois	sometimes
82	partout	everywhere
83	pas	not
84	parfaitement	perfectly
85	peu	few, little
86	peut-être	perhaps
87	plutôt	rather
88	plus	more, ___-er
89	point	hardly any; almost no
90	pourquoi	why
91	pourtant	yet
92	précédemment	previously
93	précisément	precisely
94	premièrement	firstly
95	près	near
96	presque	nearly
97	profondément	profoundly
98	puis	then
99	quelque	some
100	quelque part	somewhere
101	rapidement	rapidly
102	rarement	rarely
103	seulement	only
104	sérieusement	seriously
105	simplement	simply
106	si	as/so
107	soudain	suddenly
108	souvent	often
109	surtout	especially
110	tant	so much
111	tantôt	sometimes
112	tard	late
113	tellement	so (much)
114	tôt	early
115	toujours	always
116	tout	all
117	très	very
118	trop	too much
119	vite	quickly
120	vraiment	really

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