Top 100 Italian Adverbs

The table below contains the 100 most common Italian adverbs.

If you are enjoying an excellent Italian pizza, you cannot just say that you are eating it: you may be eating it voraciously because it is so good!

You may always need an adverb to add a pinch of salt to your conversations, especially when speaking Italian, the most passionate language in the world.

While adjectives modify the meaning of a noun, adverbs are used to modify verbs. It is very easy to recognize them since they usually end in -ente (just as they tend to end in -ly in English).

Rules for using Italian Adverbs

As a general rule, adverbs always follow the verbs they are modifying. However, if the adverb acts as a “question word”, they need to be placed at the beginning of the sentence.

• Andrea parla velocemente (Andrea speaks quickly);
• Quando andiamo al cinema? (When are we going to the cinema?).

Sometimes, you just need to add -ente to the feminine form of ad adjective, to obtain your adverb.

• Questa auto è lenta (This car is slow);
• Marco guida lentamente (Marco is drowing slowly).

However, some words can only be used as adverbs. There is no list of all of them: all you can do is memorising what they are every time you find them in your grammar book.

• Lucia cucina bene (Lucia cooks well);
• La torta è dentro la scatola (The cake is inside the box).

Interrogative words can be used as adverbs as well.

• Perchè non mangi la mia torta? (Why don’t you eat my cake?)

 

 

Top 100 Italian Adverbs

Learning how to use adverbs is a crucial part of your journey through learning Italian. Here you will find an exhaustive list of the 100 most commonly used Italian adverbs. Try to study all of them, and this will be your secret to master Italian! If you want to learn more about how to use Italian adverbs, you can read our article!

Rank	Italian word	English translation
1	non	not
2	più	more
3	già	already
4	così	so
5	poi	then
6	ancora	still
7	quanto	how much
8	qui	here
9	molto	much
10	meno	less
11	dove	where
12	cioè	namely
13	prima	before
14	dopo	after
15	quasi	almost
16	invece	instead
17	mai	never
18	tanto	so much
19	come	as
20	bene	well
21	ora	now
22	ci	there
23	poco	little
24	forse	perhaps
25	proprio	exactly
26	pure	as well
27	assai	very
28	oggi	today
29	vi	there
30	almeno	at least
31	circa	about
32	troppo	too much
33	insieme	together
34	oltre	further
35	certo	of course
36	fuori	out, outside
37	meglio	better
38	fino	even
39	appunto	exactly
40	piuttosto	rather
41	ne	from there
42	ormai	by now
43	inoltre	furthermore
44	appena	as soon as, barely
45	no	no
46	infine	finally
47	intorno	around
48	quindi	then
49	direttamente	directly
50	veramente	really
51	certamente	certainly
52	comunque	anyway
53	particolarmente	particularly
54	avanti	forward
55	allora	then
56	probabilmente	probably
57	via	away
58	presto	soon
59	abbastanza	enough
60	all’interno	indoors, within
61	tardi	late
62	facilmente	easily
63	vicino	close
64	fa	ago
65	addirittura	even
66	naturalmente	of course
67	affatto	at all
68	là	there
69	tutto	all
70	completamente	completely
71	finalmente	finally
72	immediatamente	immediately
73	esclusivamente	exclusively
74	pertanto	therefore
75	quando	when
76	chiaramente	clearly
77	nemmeno	not even
78	ecco	here
79	assolutamente	absolutely
80	peraltro	moreover
81	male	badly
82	necessariamente	necessarily
83	accanto	near
84	altresì	also
85	generalmente	generally
86	davvero	really
87	dietro	behind
88	rispettivamente	respectively
89	insomma	in short
90	adesso	now
91	evidentemente	apparently
92	perfettamente	perfectly
93	altrimenti	otherwise
94	principalmente	mainly
95	innanzi	forward
96	altrove	elsewhere
97	davanti	in front
98	dentro	inside
99	intanto	in the meantime
100	essenzialmente	essentially

 

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