ADVERBS.
§126. Adverbs are of nine kinds, viz:—
1. Adverbs proper, as ဧကန်, certainly, အလကား, in vain, လားလား, an intensive before a negative, as လားလားမပြော, he says nothing at all, ခပ်, rather, prefixed to adjectives, formed from verbal roots by reduplication.
2. Pronominal adjectives used to modify a following verb, as အဘယ်သို့နေသနည်း, how does (he) remain? ထိုသို့နေသည်, (he) remains thus; or combined with a secondary noun and similarly applied, as ဘယ်လောက်ကြီးသနည်း, how large is (it)? သည်ကလောက်, properly သည်ခန့်လောက်ကြီးသည်, (it) is so large. How? in what manner? and thus, in this manner, are also expressed by combining pronominals, lightly accented with နှယ်, manner, as ဘဲ့နှယ်, how? သည့်နှယ်, thus.
3. Adverbs formed from simple or compound verbs:—
(a.) from simple verbs—by prefixing အ or တ, as အလွှန်ကြီးသည်, to be very great, အလျှင်သွား, go quick; တစောင်းကြည့်သည်, to look sideways;—by affixing စွာ, as ကောင်းစွာ, well;—by reduplication, as ကောင်းကောင်း, well;—by reduplication with အ prefixed, as အပြားပြား, variously;—by reduplication with တ prefixed, implying repetition or continuance, as တလဲလဲ, by turns, တမတ်မတ် in a standing posture; by reduplication, with အ prefixed to each member, as အသီးအသီး, separately;—
(b.) from compound verbs—by affixing စွာ, as ကောင်းမြတ်စွာ, excellently;—by prefixing အ to each member, as အကွပ်အညပ်, penally, by way of punishment;—by prefixing အ to the first member, and တ to the latter, as အဆောတလျင်, quickly, အငြတ်တနိုး, affectionately;—by prefixing အ or တ to the first, and reduplicating the latter, as အလျင်မြန်မြန်, fast, တစိုးရိမ်ရိမ်, anxiously;—by prefixing အ to the first, and တ to the latter reduplicated, as အမွှေးတကြိုင်ကြိုင် fragrantly;—by reduplicating
