The present study addresses, in a comparative Swedish-French perspective, the derived adverb and its modification by a following adjective. From a translational point of view, the structure ‘derived adverb + adjective’ is interesting, since its translation into French is reputed to generate problems. The main objectives are (1) to investigate the solutions adopted by the translators when rendering the construction ‘derived adverb + adjective’ in French, (2) to analyse the factors involved in the cases where the original structure is not maintained in the French translations, (3) to show that the solutions adopted by the translators differ according to which semantic category the adverb belongs to. The results show that when the adverbial element is intensifying, the same structure is more often maintained in the French translations than in those cases where the adjective is modified by a qualitative adverb.