Learn the COMPARATIVE and SUPERLATIVE in Spanish

Learn how to use the comparative and superlative form in Spanish. This Spanish lesson for beginners or advanced students that need a reminder. Here you will learn a lot of vocabulary on this subject with many sentences as examples (translated in English) that can you can use either on holidays or on normal days while speaking spanish. Learn Spanish on YouTube.
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Something you need whenever you learn a new language, especially Spanish: the comparative and superlative forms

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When do I need to use the comparative form in Spanish?

When you are comparing two or more things with each other.

Duhh!!

Here I will focus on two degrees of comparison: comparative and superlative.

What?

Don't worry. I’ll make it easy. Let’s start with comparative.

Pedro es más inteligente que Francisco.

Here I’m comparing Pedro and Francisco with each other and saying that Pedro is smarter than Francisco.

Ok, so this is like in English when you say: faster than… slower than… prettier than…?

Exacto! Or when you use “more” plus an adjective or an adverb plus “than” in english, like: Ricardo is more reliable than Tim.

“More… than”

Ricardo es más fiable que Tim. Ricardo es más fiable que Tim.

But in Spanish we always use: MÁS + ADJETIVO / ADVERBIO + QUE

Más rápido que…, más lento que…, más guapo que...

Soy más guapo que tú. Soy más guapo que tú.

I knew you were gonna say something stupid like that!

So you only use “más… que” in Spanish?

Yes!

Always?!

YES!.. Well, you know there are always exception…, with these four adjectives one uses “a” instead of “que”:
inferior a, superior a, anterior a, posterior a

Yo soy superior a ti. Yo soy superior a ti.

HAHAHAHA

The superlative is the highest comparative form. It’s like: “THE MOST…” or “THE LEAST…” Whatever in English!

Correcto! In spanish you form the superlative with:
El más...
La más...
Los más ...
Las más…

That’s when you mean “the most…” and it all depends if you talk about a feminine or masculine noun or in plural...

El menos…
La menos…
Los menos…
Las menos… When you mean “the least…” Por ejemplo:

Pedro es el más inteligente.
Pedro es el más inteligente.

Here I only need one noun because I am not comparing Pedro to anyone else.

Ricardo es el más fiable. Ricardo es el más fiable.

Nor Ricardo.

Maria es la más rápida. Rosa es la más trabajadora.

And when you want to express that someone is the least…

Ricardo es el menos inteligente. Rosa es la menos simpática.

OJO

OJO

Something important I want to point out is that some adjectives have irregular comparative forms:

I knew this was too easy!

Hey, I said I will make it easy!

Bueno, mejor, el mejor. Here you don't say: “más bueno”, but “mejor” and normally you wouldn’t say “el más bueno”, but “el mejor”

Oh, it’s like in English: good, better, the best!

Exactly! Very easy!

And the other exceptions? malo, peor, el peor

poco, menos. There is no superlative here.
Mucho, más. There is no superlative here either.
Ok, like "bad, worse, the worst"

And the last ones are…?

Grande, mayor, el mayor
Pequeño, menor, el menor

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