According to Othman Sulaiman (1995), a bahasa Malaysia adverb modifies a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

Kata adverba ialah kata yang berfungsi pada ajung ayat dalam struktur Subjek-PredikatObjek-Ajung (Nahu Melayu Mutakhir, (2009). An adverb is the word that is use in subject-predicate-object in structure.

Golongan Kata Perkataan dalam sesuatu bahasa dapat digolongkan ke dalam golongan tertentu berdasarkan beberapa kriteria, misalnya criteria sruktur fonologi atau bunyi, kriteria struktur morfem, kriteria sintaksis dan criteria semantic (Tatabahasa Dewan, 2010). Based on Tatabahasa Dewan (2010), word can be included into group word depends on criteria. For instance, the criteria of fonology structure or sound, criteria of morpheme structure, criteria of syntax and criteria of semantic. There are four group of word: (i) Noun (Ii) Verb (Iii) Adjective (Iv) Adverb

Huraian untuk kata adjektif tunggal. Both of them, Malay and English word are root words and do not accept affixes.