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# happily

«happily» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a happy, cheerful way** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (happily, more happily, most happily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Happily means in a happy, cheerful way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#m1)

2) Happily means willingly, gladly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#m2)

3) Happily can mean «luckily»: «Happily, nobody was hurt.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories many fairy tales end «and they lived happily ever after». In writing lessons pupils use adverbs like happily, sadly, quickly to show how something is done. In everyday talk «I'll happily help» means «I am glad to help». Phrases: happily ever after, happily married, happily playing.

### examples

- The children played happily in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x1)
- They lived happily ever after. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x2)
- I would happily help you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x3)
- The dog wagged its tail happily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x4)
- Happily, nobody was hurt in the crash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x5)
- She smiled happily at her new puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x6)
- Little Two-eyes lived happily for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/#x7)

### note

Spelling: happy → happily (y changes to i, add -ly). Same with easy → easily, angry → angrily. Opposite: sadly, unhappily.

### In the corpora

- [There they find Taffy making daisy-chains and Tegumai happily spearing small carp with his mended spear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/85-justso-first-letter-2-the-whole-tribe-comes/9/)
- [They live happily ever after, and Kipling asks: «But wasn't it clever of Balkis?»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/14/)
- [Consonant + y turns into i: happy, happily, happiness; easy, easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/9-suffixes-ous-ly-ful-less-ness-ment/7/)
- [A good secret, like a surprise party or a hidden present, ends happily and nobody gets hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/3/)
- [A good secret, like a surprise for someone, ends happily and nobody gets hurt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «happily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/happily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.