French · Chapter 13 · Lesson 3 · Grammar primer
Adverbs ment
Prescribed by the AQA specification.
The short version
Build the adverb off the feminine
The -ment adverb hangs off the feminine adjective, not the masculine: lent gives lente gives lentement, doux gives douce gives doucement. The exception is a masculine that already ends in a vowel, which takes -ment straight: vrai gives vraiment, never vraiement.
Parle plus doucement, s'il te plaît.
-amment and -emment sound identical
Constamment and évidemment rhyme exactly; the a and the e make no difference to the ear. So you cannot spell these by sound, you spell them from the adjective: -ant gives -amment (courant, couramment) and -ent gives -emment (évident, évidemment).
Évidemment, elle avait raison.
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