233: Adverbs Ending with "-mente"

LearnCraft Spanish

Timothy Moser

Education, Language Learning

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🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Can you turn an English adverb into a Spanish adverb by simply ending it with "mente" instead of "ly"? Let's talk about some of the nuances of Spanish adverbs that end with -mente, including the "false friends" (or false cognates) that can trip English speakers up, such as últimamente.

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0:00.0	Ist completely list?
0:05.0	Join us on a rigorous step-by-step journey to fluency.
0:10.0	I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.
0:14.8	Today we're going to learn our last essential adverbs,
0:19.1	as well as some fun things you can do to customize nouns,
0:22.8	adverbs, and adjectives in Spanish. To begin with, let's learn the words for completely and
0:29.9	totally. Completely is completamente, and totally is totally.
0:42.2	So, for example, are you completely ready for the test?
0:46.6	Estes completely list for the proof?
0:52.3	I'm sure that it was totally correct. I'm sure that it was totally correct.
1:05.6	And as we've mentioned earlier, there are a lot of English adverbs that can turn into Spanish adverbs pretty easily by having them end with Mente instead of L-Y.
1:12.0	So far we have Realmente,
1:14.9	exactly,
1:16.4	probably-mente,
1:18.1	simply-completamente,
1:21.4	and totally-mente.
1:24.1	Let's learn a few more just for fun,
1:26.4	even though the following words are well below the top 1,000 words in Spanish.
1:32.1	The word for obviously is obviamento.
1:36.7	The word for absolutely is absolutelyamenta.
1:42.2	Here's an example.
1:44.6	Obviously, there is absolutely no reason to do this.
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