Adjectives and adverbs are a great example of knowing two words as a result of memorizing only one & the rules are largely consistent and predictable for what ending to apply.

Adverbs to end in -e

It seems typical to quote the adjectives in their masculine form for these mappings, so I’ll do likewise.  But each of the endings below typically results in an adverb ending in -e, sometimes with other slight changes to the suffix.

Some examples

Exceptions

1. While -wy ⇒ -wie, this isn’t the case when the ending is -owy.  They map to –owo.
2. Colours.  These also map to the -o ending.
3. There are just some exceptions to every rule.  Common ones that I’ve see so far include :

Next post, I’ll look at the other adverb suffix which I’ve mentioned in the exceptions, -o.