Catalan has an incredibly vast assortment of adverbs and, especially, adverbial
phrases of location.
** A characteristic common to many of these adverbs is that the preposition a can be added to them with no change whatsoever in either meaning or nuance.
Thus, baix and a baix, dalt and a dalt, fora and a fora mean exactly the same, and there are many more such cases.
Derived Adverbs
A lot of adverbs are derived regularly from the feminine forms of the adjectives by adding the suffix
-ment (this pattern appeared in the Vulgar Latin), cf.:
dola (sweet) + ment dolament (sweetly) suau (soft) + ment suaument (softly)