120 Common French Adverbs to Add to Your Vocabulary
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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