Adverbs (words that describe a verb) appear immediately before a verb. There are four types of adverbs in Lahu [@PL:1986] as follows.
Negative adverbs
We have seen these in [sec:negation] but here are a few more examples:
maˇ te not do
taˇ te don’t do
Positive adverbs
These have a positive sense. Some examples:
te [with all strength]{} do
feu kuˬ ve [with all strength]{} intensely call
haˆ te quickly do
hk’a adverbs
The word ‘hk’a’ means all but can be combined with other verbs to create adverbial expressions such as the following.
hk’a biˇ keu ve fully [to fill]{} ‘to fill fully’
hk’a bvuhˆ caˇ ve [to be full]{} eat ‘to eat to the full’
hk’a law caˉ ve sufficient [to cook]{} ‘to cook sufficiently’
-eh adverbs
The syllable ‘-eh’ could be called an adverbalising particle as it can be added to the end of words to make them an adverb.
nawˉ green nawˉ-eh greenish
ba-eh brightly