Languages › Japanese Useful Japanese Adverbs Print Japanese Japanese Grammar History & Culture Essential Japanese Vocabulary By Namiko Abe Namiko Abe Japanese Language Expert B.A., Kwansei Gakuin University Namiko Abe is a Japanese language teacher and translator, as well as a Japanese calligraphy expert. She has been a freelance writer for nearly 20 years. Learn about our Editorial Process Updated on April 27, 2017 alwaysitsumoいつも usuallytaiteiたいてい oftenyokuよく sometimestokidoki時々 seldommettani (+ negative verb)めったに never, by no meanszenzen全然 quite, entirelymattakuまったく certainly, by all meanskanarazu必ず absolutelyzettaini絶対に perhaps, probablytabun多分 indeed, reallyhontouni本当に completelysukkariすっかり surely, certainlykittoきっと especiallytokuni特に extremely, verytotemoとても fairly, considerablykanariかなり Read More Useful Japanese Verbs By Namiko Abe slightly, a bitchottoちょっと about, approximatelyyaku約 foreveritsumademoいつまでも all the time, by farzuttoずっと once, beforekatsuteかつて not yet, stillmadaまだ soonsuguすぐ for a whileshibarakuしばらく for the time beingichiouいちおう anyway, at any ratetonikakuとにかく now, well, incidentallytokorodeところで at firstmazuまず next, thentsugini次に finallysaigoni最後に again, alsomataまた suddenlykyuuni急に by chanceguuzenni偶然に just, preciselychoudoちょうど alreadymouもう moremottoもっと mostmottomo最も fasthayaku早く slowlyyukkuriゆっくり increasinglymasumasuますます graduallydandanだんだん at lastyattoやっと togetherisshoni一緒に separatelybetsubetsuni別に insteadkawarini代わりに quietlyjittoじっと secretlysottoそっと on purposewazatoわざと despite one's effortssekkakuせっかく if possiblenarubekuなるべく Cite this Article Format mla apa chicago Your Citation Abe, Namiko. "Useful Japanese Adverbs." ThoughtCo, Apr. 5, 2023, thoughtco.com/useful-japanese-adverbs-2027925. Abe, Namiko. (2023, April 5). Useful Japanese Adverbs. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/useful-japanese-adverbs-2027925 Abe, Namiko. "Useful Japanese Adverbs." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/useful-japanese-adverbs-2027925 (accessed April 20, 2024). copy citation