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The adverbs

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)

Degree of the Adverbs

Comparative Degree (Grau Comparatiu)

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