Hmar language has a large number of adverbial expressions besides the conventional adverbs or simple adverbs, which may also be further modified by suffixing and adding more words for emphasis, clearer description, insistence etc.

Hmar adverbs could be discussed under 4 categories:


i. Adverbs of manner,
ii. Adverb of time,
iii. Adverb of place and
iv. Relative adverb

In addition to these 4 there could be one more category known as ‘adverbials’, which are verbs much like adverbs.

This group of adverbs also could be seen in two sub-categories -(i) those referring to point of time of occurrence, simply ‘stative’ and (ii) those referring to the frequency at which the action takes place.

The following examples could be seen