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Learning the Scottish Adverbs is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Scottish language. But first we need to know what the role of Adverbs is in the structure of the grammar in Scottish.
Scottish adverbs are part of speech. Generally they're words that modify any part of language other than a noun. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Scottish Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs | adverbs |
| I read a book sometimes | Ah reid a book sometimes |
| I will never smoke | Ah will ne'er reek |
| are you alone? | ur ye aloyn? |
Notice the structure of the Adverbs in Scottish.
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Scottish placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Scottish vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Scottish Adverbs |
|---|---|
| adverbs of time | adverbs ay time |
| yesterday | yesterday |
| today | the-day |
| tomorrow | tha' moorns nicht |
| now | noo |
| then | 'en |
| later | later |
| tonight | tonecht |
| right now | reit noo |
| last night | lest nicht |
| this morning | thes morn |
| next week | next week |
| already | awreddy |
| recently | recently |
| lately | lately |
| soon | suin |
| immediately | immediately |
| still | still |
| yet | yit |
| ago | ago |
| adverbs of place | adverbs ay place |
| here | haur |
| there | thaur |
| over there | ower thaur |
| everywhere | a' place |
| anywhere | anywhaur |
| nowhere | nowhaur |
| home | haem |
| away | awa' |
| out | it |
| adverbs of manner | adverbs ay manner |
| very | huir uv a |
| quite | quite |
| pretty | bonnie |
| really | pure |
| fast | fest |
| well | weel |
| hard | stoaner |
| quickly | quickly |
| slowly | slowly |
| carefully | canny |
| hardly | hardly |
| barely | barely |
| mostly | mostly |
| almost | almost |
| absolutely | absolutely |
| together | together |
| alone | aloyn |
| adverbs of frequency | adverbs ay frequency |
| always | aye |
| frequently | frequently |
| usually | usually |
| sometimes | sometimes |
| occasionally | occasionally |
| seldom | seldom |
| rarely | rarely |
| never | ne'er |
Adverbs of time place manner and frequency have a very important role in Scottish. Once you're done with the Scots Adverbs, you might want to check the rest of our Scottish lessons here: Learn Scottish. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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