Dalecarlian adverbs of degree and manner

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Adverbs of degree are used, when you value something, or tell how something happens in degree of something else.
Adverbs of manner are adverbs made of adjectives:

From the adjective sjók (= sick), we get the adverb sjókt (= sickly),
From the adjective l[aelig´]fun (= inert), we get the adverb l[aelig´]fut (= inertly),
From the adjective dálin (= bad), we get the adverb dáli (= badly),


Examples:

(= tight),
akkurat (= exactly),
álldeilest (= quite, exactly),
áldriso (= no matter),
aftrað (= together with),
bara (= only, merely),
bra (= well),
þâfel (= at least),
dáli (=badly, poorly, sickly),
gjenna (= willingly, gladly),
fínt [fi:nt] (= finely, elaborately),
før inti (= for free),
ganska (= very much, a good deal, quite a lot),
grandla (= quite, completely),
góðskli (= nicely, pleasantly),
inglund (= by no means, not at all),
kanski (= perhaps, maybe),
knappast (= scarcely, hardly),
lagum (= just right, sufficiently, moderately),
lítið [l\i:`teD] (= little, somewhat, slightly),
l[aelig´]fut (= bluntly, inertly),
mjasta (= almost, nearly),
núg (= enough, fairly),
nóga (= exactly, carefully),
oðervís (= otherwise, differently),
smátt (= slowly),
so (= so),
sone (= so, like this/that),
sárt; [ "Ig hafr sárt í skállañum" (= "I have a headache") ],
serdeilest (= extraordinarily),
tvertum (= quite the opposite),
ufendis (= awfully),
ôgjenna (= unwillingly),
vondahvur (= in any way),
vel (= well),
venest (= very much, a good deal, quite a lot),
vitut (= sensibly, judiciously),
ymslund (= in different ways),
åfenda (= without exception; in turn, by turns),





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