normally
part of speech
adverb (normally)
meaning for a pupil
1) Usually; in most cases: «I normally walk to school». tree →
2) In a normal or ordinary way: «Breathe normally». tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life: describing routines — «I normally go to bed at eight». In science: «the heart normally beats 70–100 times a minute for children». In stories «normally» sets up something unusual: «Normally the house was quiet, but that night…». Similar: usually, generally, typically.
examples
- Although Resh is usually thought to belong to the letters which cannot normally receive a dagesh, this was apparently not the case for these traditions. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- The first is clearly the root שָׁכַב shakhav ‘to lie, lie down’, but שכובה looks like a passive participle, shekhuvah, while shakhav is normally an intransitive verb not amenable to being made passive. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) tree →
- I normally have cereal for breakfast. tree →
- Normally the library is quiet. tree →
- Breathe normally and relax. tree →
- The shop is normally open on Sundays, but not today. tree →
- The bus normally comes at eight. tree →
- After the cast came off, he could walk normally again. tree →
note
Adverb from «normal» + «-ly», double l. Position: before the main verb (I normally walk) or after «be» (He is normally late). Spelling trap: normally, not «normaly».
In the corpora
- An octopus, a cousin of the cuttlefish, normally has eight arms and can change colour and blend into rocks and walls too.
- Some offers cost more than buying the items normally, so always do the sum.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «normally» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.