Common Spanish Adverbs Every Learner Needs to Know
Add flair and details to your Spanish conversations with this list of the most common Spanish adverbs.
Adverbs are an important part of language and they are crucial words to learn if you want to properly get your point across. From modifying verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, and clauses, adverbs will tell you how something was done, adding more clarity to your conversations.
Here in this article, we will take a look at 105 useful entries covering Spanish adverbs and related expressions. A few entries are prepositions or conjunctions, labeled in the list.
Now here’s your list!
- English WordSpanish Translation
- hereaquí
- thereallí
- nearcerca
- in frontdelante
- on topencima
- insidedentro
- aheadadelante
- uparriba
- abovearriba
- insideadentro
- hereacá
- thereallá
- farlejos
- behinddetrás
- underneathdebajo
- outsidefuera
- behindatrás
- downabajo
- belowabajo
- outsideafuera
- todayhoy
- tomorrowmañana
- last nightanoche
- the night before lastanteanoche
- recentlyrecientemente
- brieflybrevemente
- dailydiariamente
- stilltodavía
- nevernunca
- occasionallyocasionalmente
- nowahora
- yesterdayayer
- the day before yesterdayanteayer
- previouslypreviamente
- currentlyactualmente
- permanentlypermanentemente
- frequentlyfrecuentemente
- alreadyya
- alwayssiempre
- weeklysemanalmente
- verymuy
- a lotmucho
- lessmenos
- so muchtanto
- somewhatalgo
- too muchdemasiado
- a littlepoco
- moremás
- enoughbastante
- not at allnada
- wellbien
- bettermejor
- fastrápido
- quicklyrápidamente
- clearlyclaramente
- beautifullybellamente
- loudlyruidosamente
- sweetlydulcemente
- seriouslyseriamente
- like thisasí
- this wayasí
- badlymal
- worsepeor
- slowlylentamente
- intelligentlyinteligentemente
- carefullycuidadosamente
- calmly / peacefullytranquilamente
- stupendouslyestupendamente
- voluntarilyvoluntariamente
- easilyfácilmente
- perhapsacaso
- besidesademás
- forward / aheadadelante
- aroundalrededor
- oftena menudo
- beforeantes
- rather (as a correction or qualification)más bien
- barely / hardly (adverb); as soon as (conjunction)apenas
- hencepor lo tanto
- hencede ahí
- stillaún
- yettodavía
- withindentro
- afterdespués
- shortlyen breve
- thenentonces
- towards (preposition)hacia
- till (preposition)hasta
- until (preposition)hasta
- in the meantimemientras tanto
- nor (conjunction)ni
- neither…nor (conjunction pair)ni…ni
- soonpronto
- perhapstal vez
- sotan
- soasí
- latetarde
- earlytemprano
- every daytodos los días
- usuallyusualmente
- generallygeneralmente
- from time to timede vez en cuando
- monthlymensualmente
- seldompocas veces
- annuallyanualmente
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