Day Twenty Five: Adverbs

Adverbs – spicing up your verbs so you can really quickly fully master Japanese completely.

Now that you know how to use both types of adjectives, you can easily conjugate them into adverbs. However you must conjugate each of the two types differently. I-adjectives, when conjugated into adverbs, drop the very last い and replace it with a く. Na-adjectives, on the other hand, requires a に instead of a な between the adjective and verb. 

I-Adjectives: 

i => ku 

はやい＝はやく (Quick = Quickly)

わるい＝わるく (Bad=Badly)

かわいい＝かわいく (Cute=Cutely)

Na Adjectives: 

Na => Ni 

げんきな＝げんきに (Well/Healthy=Well/Healthily)

しずかな＝しずかに (Quiet=Quietly)

へんな＝へんに (Odd=Oddly)

Another important thing to remember is where to put your adverbs. They are typically used right before the verb they are modifying.