Language/French/Grammar/Adverbs-ending-in-—amment-and-—eminent-derived-from-adjectives-ending-in-—ant-or-—ent

Adverbs ending in —amment and —eminent derived from adjectives ending in —ant or —ent

Adjectives ending in -ant and -ent form the adverb with -amment and -emment, respectively:

Adjective	English	Adverb	English
abondant	abundant	abondamment	abundantly
apparent	apparent	apparemment	apparently
brillant	brilliant	brillamment	brilliantly
constant	constant	constamment	constantly
courant	current	couramment	fluently
précédent	preceding	précédemment	beforehand
prudent	prudent	prudemment	prudently
violent	violent	violemment	violently
vaillant	valorous	vaillamment	with valour

There are three forms which do not follow this pattern exactly:

Adjective	English	Adverb	English
lent	slow	lentement	slowly
présent	present	présentement	presently
véhément	vehement	véhémentement	vehemently

NB: véhémentement is quite rare, and avec véhémence is usually preferred.

3 forms follow the pattern, but the present participles from which they derive no longer exist in modern French:

	Verb	Adverb
French	noter (notant - old French)	notamment
English	to note	notably
French	(scire - old French/Latin)	sciemment
English		knowingly

Other Lessons

• Use of jamais
• Plural forms of adjectives — Adjectives which end in al
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
• Masculine and feminine forms of adjectives — A change in the final consonant or syllable
• Pronouns referring to groups of mixed gender
• Optional use of neutral le
• Nouns with irregular plurals
• Recognizing when an unstressed pronoun is a direct object
• Plurals
• Stressed pronouns standing alone
• Time adverbs
• Types of adverbs
• Non specific use of y
• Active Voice and Passive Voice
• tard versus en retard