Grammar - Using Irregular Adverbs in Spanish

When you got to the Spanish Difficult Review quiz series you then learned about 'Comparative Adverbs' and 'Superlative Adverbs'. Again, the rules surrounding both of those types of adverbs were based upon the adverb being a regular adverb. However, just as Spanish has regular and irregular verbs, it also has regular and irregular adverbs.

IRREGULAR ADVERBS

There are probably more irregular adverbs than regular in Spanish. You have actually learned about two of the irregular adverbs in this Spanish Difficult Review series. Those two irregular adverbs were the words of good (bueno) and bad (malo). In the comparative form, good becomes mejor and bad becomes peor. With that in mind, this quiz is going to focus on a some of the other more common irregular adverbs. Note that there are no specific rules to follow when it comes to irregular adverbs. Therefore, they will all have to simply be memorized. Yes, we feel your pain but, together, we will all get through it! Now for some irregular adverbs.

Please note that the words más and menos are not used with irregular comparatives! However, with irregular superlatives the definite article is still used!

QUIZ TIME

Now that you have had a chance to review some of the irregular adverbs it is time to move onto the quiz section. Each quiz sentence contains an English adverb. Your task is to find the correct Spanish translation of the given adverb. Note that the adverb in the sentence will not be shown to you in capitalized letters. Therefore, you will need to pay close attention to find which word in the sentence is the adverb.