Dal'qörian adverbs

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Adverbs are words that describe or give extra meaning to verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, or any word that 'isn’t' a noun. In English, many adverbs are formed from the adjective by adding the suffix ly/ily:

• happy/happily

• strong/strongly

• hasty/hastily

• stupid/stupidly

• effective/effectively

However, there are many that are irregular and do not have recognizable endings such as now, very, quite. Words such as today, tomorrow, yesterday, nowadays, sometimes are also known as 'adverbs of time'. In dal'qörian, regular adverbs or adverbs that have a relative adjective, are formed by adding the following suffixes to the adjective:

ː s to adjectives that end with a vowel

ː as to adjectives that end with a consonant

ː ni to adjectives that end with ø(some adjectives already end in ni; these take no ending)

Adjective	Adjectival adverb
qurnöra-happy	qurnöras-happily
vélø-nasty	véløni-nastily
geræsni-graceful	geræsni-gracefully
neƒracteÞ-affectionate	neƒracteÞas-affectionately

Word order

In English, normal adverbs can either precede or follow the adj/verb:

• The child played happily.

• The child happily played.

In dal'qörian, adjectival adverbs always precede the word they modify:

• di arangáj qurnöras gä’spélögr. The child happily played.

• minäla, öcra taÞ resæÞámn, örendörädnas gä’létr érenöra vögér dörÞ. They were told to wait there specifically for that reason. (lit: They, for that reason, specifically told them to wait there).

• di siárij sæmérädnas ømária. The sun is brightly shining.

Adverbs of time

Adverbs of time 'always' begin a sentence or clause 'except' when used in interrogative questions or comparative sentences where they are placed last:

• vonériáda, di parenöj qve binöra besöcéræ,, dráb nequtöndrel, mæ besöcérax binöra vélas. My dad is coming tomorrow but he doesn’t visit me much nowadays. (lit: Tomorrow, my father will visit, but nowadays, he visits not me much.)

• væl? iquirquas diö gör vonériáda. Where would you like to go tomorrow?

• tiÞ säsa strömiax ädiáda. It's not as hot as yesterday.

Note that, in the first example, there is also an adverb of time in the second clause: nequtöndrel-nowadays. When you have an adv of time in the second clause of a sentence, it immediately follows the conjunction which introduces that clause. There is a comprehensive list of adverbs of time at the end of this section.