Re: adjectives -> adverbs

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Sorry, meant to send this to the whole list.

Laurie
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Daniel Andreasson wrote:
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> Hello y'all!
>
> Lately I've been curious as to how adverbs are
> formed out of adjectives.
>
In Japanese, there is a class of adjectives which end in -i. These may
be transformed into adverbs by replacing -i with -ku.

Eg.

        hayai "fast"
        hayaku "quickly"

There are other adjectives which don't fit the -i pattern. I don't know
if they have similar transformations into adverbs, and I also don't know
yet if there are other adverbs which do not have adjectival roots.

Laurie
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