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adverbialize

adverbialize verb: to use as or change into an adverb.

Verb

adverbialize (third-person singular simple present adverbializes, present participle adverbializing, simple past and past participle adverbialized)

  1. (US, transitive) To use as or change into an adverb.
    • The basic function of the copula in Japanese is to predicate, adnominalize or adverbialize nouns.2010, Bjarke Frellesvig, A History of the Japanese Language, page 94

Forms of adverbialize

third-person singular presentadverbializes
present participleadverbializing
past participleadverbialized
pastadverbialized
alternative formadverbialise

Origin of adverbialize

From adverbial + -ize.

Words formed from adverbialize

Questions about adverbialize

What does adverbialize mean?
Adverbialize means to use as or change into an adverb.
What part of speech is adverbialize?
Adverbialize is a verb.
What is the past tense of adverbialize?
The past tense of adverbialize is adverbialized.

Words near adverbialize in the dictionary

  1. adverbialist
  2. adverbialists
  3. adverbiality
  4. adverbialization
  5. adverbializations
  6. adverbialize
  7. adverbialized
  8. adverbializer
  9. adverbializers
  10. adverbializes
  11. adverbializing

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