Manner
How does it happen?
Significado
We can describe how an action is done, not just what happens. This can show speed, care, loudness, or another feature of the action. Languages use special word forms or phrases, and some have no separate ending for making an adverb. Unlike Qualities, Manner describes the action or event, not a person or thing.
Como identificar
Look for a word or phrase that answers how an action is done or how an event happens.
Na tua língua materna
Many manner adverbs are formed by adding -mente to the feminine adjective form, as clara becomes claramente, and do not change for gender or number. Short adverbs such as bem and devagar and phrases such as com cuidado also describe how an action is done. In everyday speech, some adjectives are used unchanged as adverbs, as in falar baixo.
A Júlia explicou tudo claramente.
A motorista dirigiu com cuidado.
Os vizinhos falam baixo à noite.
Baixo describes the speaking and stays unchanged despite the plural subject.
Na tua língua de aprendizagem
English often uses an adverb to describe how an action happens, and many of these adverbs end in -ly. Some have other forms, such as well, or the same form as an adjective, such as fast. A phrase such as with care can also describe manner.
Please speak slowly.
Slowly describes the speed of speaking.
The children ran fast.
Fast is an adverb here; it does not take -ly.
He opened the box with care.
A phrase, rather than a single adverb, describes how he opened it.
Learners whose language uses unchanged adjectives to describe actions may use careful where carefully is needed. Learners whose language has one regular ending for these words may add -ly to fast, although the usual adverb is fast.