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There is a difference between comparative superlative and absolute superlative: Ella es la más bella → (she is the most beautiful); Ella es bellísima → (she is extremely beautiful). Portuguese and Italian distinguish comparative superlative (superlativo relativo) and absolute superlative (superlativo absoluto/assoluto). For the ...
am schönsten ("the most beautiful") Ich finde dieses Haus am schönsten. ("I find this house (to be) the most beautiful.") The attributive superlative form adds the "st" to the comparative root and then the conventional adjective ending. das schönste Lied. This form can also be placed in a predicate position with the appropriate adjective ending:
In general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality or degree - see also comparison (grammar) for an overview of comparison, as well as positive and superlative degrees of comparison.
This holds for the positive and comparative forms. The superlative is formed with the preposition am and the ending -en, e.g. am schönsten "most beautifully". Only a limited number of adverbs have a special elative form ending in -stens, e.g. schnellstens ('as fast as possible'), bestens ('very well'). schnell ("fast, quickly")
Many adjectives inflect for degree of comparison. For example, hot has the comparative form hotter and the superlative form hottest. Typically, short adjectives (including most single-syllable adjectives that are semantically gradable), adjectives originating in Old English, and short adjectives borrowed from French use the -er and -est suffixes.
comparative: longer than : länger als. superlative : longest : am längsten Gauravjuvekar 05:22, 9 February 2012 (UTC) The original poster didn't ask about German, but a language in which it is a separate degree (or more precisely, grammatical form).
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Consequently, comparative and superlative forms of such adjectives are not normally used, except in a figurative, humorous or imprecise context. Similarly, such adjectives are not normally qualified with modifiers of degree such as very and fairly , although with some of them it is idiomatic to use adverbs such as completely .