You can see the house was built steadily.

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Finnish Translation

Voit nähdä että talo on vankasti rakennettu.

The adjective “steady” can mean “well balanced”, “stable”, “difficult to displace” (of a physical object)—but “steadily” is NOT a valid adverbial form of this usage of “steady”.

The best single word to replace the cloze (that comes to mind right away for me) is “solidly”.

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#2

They were probably going for “sturdily” or “robustly”. I agree that “steadily” doesn’t work here.

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#3

At least where I live, “steadily” can mean “at a consistent pace.” I can imagine myself saying something like, “You can see they built this house at a consistent pace.” But that doesn’t make it a common thing to say…