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Adverbs 게 적게 Adjectives Transformed Adding Derived Attaching

Front 작년에는 눈이 적게 왔어요
Back We had little snow last year
Notes All adjectives that cannot be transformed into adverbs by adding -이/히/오/우 can be turned into derived adverbs by attaching -게 to their stem.

크다 → 크게
적다 → 적게
늦다 → 늦게

예쁘다 → 예쁘게
아름답다 → 아름답게
얇다 → 얇게
짧다 → 짧게

There is a number of adjectives that can be transformed into adverbs by adding more than one type of suffix. For example, 빠르다 → 빠르게/빨리.
Derived adverbs cannot be obtained from verbs in the way described above. The result of attaching -게 to the verb is the causative connective that corresponds to 'so that'. -게 is also a part of the causative principle -게 하- used after verb stems.

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