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📊 Compendium
Grammar
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English — comparatives
Eight everyday adjectives graded base → comparative → superlative, with the base meaning in your language. Watch the irregular good and bad.
| Meaning | Base | Comparative | Superlative |
|---|---|---|---|
| good | good | better | best |
| bad | bad | worse | worst |
| big | big | bigger | biggest |
| small | small | smaller | smallest |
| old | old | older | oldest |
| new | new | newer | newest |
| long | long | longer | longest |
| expensive | expensive | more expensive | most expensive |
⚠ Note
English and German add -er/-est; Romance languages use más / più / plus + adjective; Polish uses -szy and naj-…-szy. Good and bad are irregular almost everywhere (good → better → best).