Talk:French adverbs

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To do

Things I didn't have time to write up on creating the article, but that I'd like to see added (either by myself or by someone else):

- more discussion of negative adverbs (pas, plus, jamais, guère, etc.); or perhaps these should be discussed in a separate French negation or similar article together with the negative pronouns (rien and personne) and other ne constructions.

- mention of les expressions de quantité (trop/beaucoup/assez/plus/jamais/pas/point/peu de choses). I'm not sure if trop, beaucoup, etc. are still considered adverbs when used in these. They could be considered pronouns, since they replace an exact (noun-like) expression like trois kilogrammes, but it seems pretty productive to use any adverb-of-quantity there (for example, "j'ai suffisamment de" gets ~1,590 hits on Google, and at least the first ten all use "suffisamment" in an expression de quantité). At any rate, I think either this article or French pronouns should go into detail on this, and the other one should link to it.

- mention of adverb clauses. (Really, French conjunctions should talk about them, and this article should link to that.)

- mention of interrogative/exclamatory adverbs.

Ruakh 05:41, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]