Egyptian Adverbs
Learning the Egyptian Adverbs is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Egyptian language. But first we need to know what the role of Adverbs is in the structure of the grammar in Egyptian.
Egyptian adverbs are part of speech. Generally they're words that modify any part of language other than a noun. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. In Egyptian an adverb is mostly translated with an adverb in the 4th declension like هو يتكلمم كثيراً عن ابنه Huwa yatakallam kathiiran 3an ibnihi (he speaks a lot about his son). Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Egyptian Adverbs |
| adverbs | a7wal - أحوال |
| I read a book sometimes | ana be2ra ketab a7yanan - أنا بقـْرا كِتاب أحيانـًا |
| I will never smoke | ana mesh hadakhn abedan - أنا مِش هَدَخـْن أبدًا |
| are you alone? | aneta lo7dak- eneti lwa7deke? - أنتَ لوحْدَك- إنتي لوَحْدِك؟ |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Adverbs in Egyptian has a logical pattern. Locate the Adverbs above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Egyptian.
List of Adverbs in Egyptian
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Egyptian placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Egyptian vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Egyptian Adverbs |
| adverbs of time | zeref zeman - ظرف زمان |
| yesterday | embare7 - إمْبارِح |
| today | alenahardaa - النــَّهارْدَة |
| tomorrow | bokra - بـُكْرة |
| now | delo2ti - دِلْوقـْتِي |
| then | be3ed keda - بعد كِدة |
| later | ba3din - بـَعْدِين |
| tonight | alenahardaa balil - النــَّهارْدَة باليل |
| right now | delo2ti - دِلْوقـْتِي |
| last night | alelila aleli fatet / emebare7 balelil - الليلة اللي فاتت/ إمبارح بالليل |
| this morning | alenahareda alesobe7 - النــَّهاردة الصُّبح |
| next week | alasbo3 aleguai - الأسْبوع الجاي |
| already | balefe3el - بالفِعل |
| recently | meؤkhera - مؤخرا |
| lately | meؤkhera - مؤخرا |
| soon | 2erib - قريب |
| immediately | 7alaan - حالاً |
| still | lesa - لسة |
| yet | lesa - لسة |
| ago | men + Time - من + Time |
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| adverbs of place | zeref mekan - ظرف مكان |
| here | hena - هِنا |
| there | henak - هِناك |
| over there | henak - هِناك |
| everywhere | fi kel makan - في كل مَكان |
| anywhere | fi ai makan - في أي مَكان |
| nowhere | ola mekan / mesh fi ai mekan - ولا مكان / مش في اي مكان |
| home | bit / waten - بـِيت / وَطن |
| away | be3id -be3ida - بـِعِيد -بـِعِيدة |
| out | bera - برة |
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| adverbs of manner | |
| very | guedan - 2oi - جـِدًا - قوي |
| quite | guedan - 2oi - جـِدًا - قوي |
| pretty | guedan - 2oi - جـِدًا - قوي |
| really | begued - بجد |
| fast | seri3- seri3a - سريع- سريعة |
| well | koois- koisa - كُويس- كويسة |
| hard | se3eb- se3eba - صعب- صعبة |
| quickly | besore3a - بسُرعة |
| slowly | baleraa7a - بالرَّاحة |
| carefully | be7ezer - بحذر |
| hardly | bale3afya - بالعافية |
| barely | bale3afya - بالعافية |
| mostly | fi aleghaleb - في الغالب |
| almost | te2eriba - تقريبا |
| absolutely | baletakid - بالتأكيد |
| together | swa - سوا |
| alone | lo7edi- lo7edak- lo7edeke... - لوحدي- لوحدَك- لوحدِك... |
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| adverbs of frequency | |
| always | daiman - دايْمًا |
| frequently | ketir - كتير |
| usually | 3adan - عادًة |
| sometimes | a7yanan - أحيانـًا |
| occasionally | a7yanan - أحيانـًا |
| seldom | naderan - نادرًا |
| rarely | naderan - نادرًا |
| never | abadan- khales - أبدا- خالص |
Adverbs of time place manner and frequency have a very important role in Egyptian, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with Egyptian Adverbs, you might want to check the rest of our Egyptian lessons here: Learn Egyptian. Don't forget to bookmark this page.