10.15 Adverbs of time

Introduction

As has been indicated, most German adjectives can be used as adverbs without a suffix being added. There are however a number of adverbs which are only (or primarily) used in the adverbial form. On the next two pages of this chapter we have listed a number of such adverbs which we have already encountered in this course or which are in common usage in German.

 

They have been divided up into three groups which describe when, how and wher things happen - we call them adverbs of time, manner and place. Listed below are the most common German adverbs of time - note that both "morgens" and "vormittags" mean "in the morning".