How to conjugate superlative in spanish
Comparatives and Superlatives in Spanish | The Language Tutor *Lesson 123*
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we're going to talk about comparatives
and superlatives and so you might be
saying
what do you mean by comparatives and
superlatives comparatives is you know
when we're comparing two things
uh she is as tall as me or boy we are
just as smart as them which you probably
are i'm sure
but that's how we're comparing people
and superlatives we're talking about the
best the worst the most the least things
like that
superlatives all right that's what we're
covering on this lesson so i hope you
have your uh cuaderno and your pluma or
your boligrafal your lapis ready to go
ready to mara puntas take some notes
here we go we're going to start with
comparatives now comparatives again
we're comparing two different things i
want to start with this word right here
like
okay we're saying someone is like
someone else okay or something is like
something
she is like my sister
now that's the sentence we're going to
start with
is our first example
she's like my sister and that's i don't
have a sister but i have a sister-in-law
she's like my sister uh so that's my
case um maybe it is with you and
somebody else we're going to use the
word
gomo to say
like or as i'm sure you've come across
this word before but this is the one we
use so if i say she is like my sister
we're going to pretty much spit that one
right out in spanish just like this
is like my sister pretty easy so when
we're comparing using that we can pretty
much just put it right in spanish let's
do another example just for fun though
they
are like family okay they're like family
to us
familia all right
pretty easy pretty cut and dry so that's
how we do comparisons when we're just
using like
now let's move into comparisons of
equality okay
here's an example if you're not sure
what i'm talking about he is as tall as
me
okay he's as tall as me
we're gonna usually use the word
tan t-a-n
you've seen this word as so before in
different contexts we've talked about it
so we're going to use this word and just
watch what we do in spanish
he is
so tall as as i am okay as me um we're
pretty much going to use it's kind of
hard to translate it back but tan in
this case is as okay he is as tall as me
let's do another example
i'm not as smart as you okay
i'm probably not as smart as you but i'm
not as smart as you no soy tan
inteligente
all right so again we're just using time
to say this all right
now i want to move into another category
of comparisons and that's using the
letters er er
in english you know we use taller
smarter or shorter
larger smaller all those kinds of things
anything with er now here's the formula
we're going to use for that we're going
to use the word mas
plus the adjective
plus the word k and notice que has no
accent on it okay we're not saying what
we're using que with no accent
which you know we i did a lesson on this
before many lessons ago this word has so
many different uses in spanish okay with
no accent a lot of different uses okay
but that's what we're going to use mass
plus the adjective plus k all right now
if i'm going to say i'm taller than him
okay i'm not going to say tall er
i'm going to say you're probably already
picking up on this i am more tall
than him and k is going to be the then
part so let's look at it in spanish
all right so i am more tall than he but
once you kind of get that in your head
you can pretty much apply it to tons of
different examples but let's look at
another one
she is shorter than us
okay she is shorter than us
and you would think when we're not
seeing we're saying and we're saying
something is less than something or
shorter we're thinking less
but we're still going to use mass is
more short
than us okay so
it takes a little getting used to but
once you get it down you you you've got
it don't worry about it okay just do
some examples practice and you're going
to nail it
okay now
i want to mention this on some websites
textbooks
you're going to see
this
mendels
plus adjective plus k
the opposite of mass plus adjective plus
k you're going to see this taut
technically as a structure
but you know um this is not going to be
that common in speech
you know you try to come up with an
example with
uh less something than something it
doesn't really work you know a while ago
we were talking about less tall then no
no more
more short than we just talked about
that it's more common
you know robin and i uh teaches here on
the channel robin and i were discussing
this
and we were talking about
this is
taught but
it really is not
in us in a normal
speech context you might see this in a
scientific way
or a math way
maybe a
description of something in a scientific
way
that might be one condition in which you
might use this structure but i'm just
telling you you're gonna see it
not that common okay
now let's move on to some other examples
let's talk about uh the word time again
i want to use this in different contexts
okay look at this sentence your house is
not as dirty as mine
you know sometimes we say that my house
is a wreck when people come over but
it's really not
your house is not as dirty as mine
so again we're saying not so dirty as
mine all right so same way okay now i
want to talk about irregular
comparatives for a minute
there are some irregular comparatives
you know we always got to have those
troublemakers right all right that's
okay though these are easy we're just
going to use these as they are good
is bueno we know that good is bueno
okay
something is good all right
better
is mejor
it stands alone
okay
bad
is marlo
but
worse
is peor
okay it just stands alone you don't have
to say more bad than
all right now big is grande
bigger
mass grande okay get that structure in
here we're back to the mass part
okay now we can also say
mayor
for bigger in certain contexts i'm going
to go ahead and tell you
just hang on to this for a minute we're
going to talk about this in a few
minutes okay so we're going to come back
to mayor i'll tell you why in just a
minute okay
small pequeno
smaller
mas pequeno let's look at an example my
house is smaller than yours
mi casa es mas pequena
que la tuya
there you go
smaller you can also say i'm going to
tell you menor
can be smaller also but again we're
going to come back and talk about this
in a minute okay all right we're going
to come back and talk about this so hang
on to that and the other one mayor all
right now
let's look at some other ones okay so
you got hoven
is young
younger
is menor
stands alone don't have to say more
young then menor stands alone old is
viejo
older we can just simply say
mayor
mayor
all right
now let's kind of switch gears and move
into superlatives for a minute these are
the most of something
now to do superlatives i want to go
ahead and teach you an initial structure
here it is we're going to take the
definite article first which is el la
los or las
okay those are the definite articles
plus
mass
plus the adjective that's our general
formula for this okay
let's look at an example we are the
tallest students in the class
somos
los estudiantes
mas artos
de la clase
the students
more tall or most tall is really how you
can look at it see that word kind of
functions both ways
of the class
okay
he is the richest man in the city
el es
the most
the man
most rich okay
now let's talk about the least of
something
we can use the definite article again
here's the formula plus menos
plus the adjective now okay
same as we just modify that one word as
the formula before
look at an example
she is the least likely to get in
trouble okay
yeah hope that's true for somebody you
know
es
la menos
propensa
a me terce
en prolemas
to put herself in problems okay in
trouble
in problems okay so here we use in menos
uh in our superlative
yes there are some irregular
superlatives as well let's go look at
those really quick
quickly all right
i don't want to get called out for my
bad english grammar so let's look at
them quickly
good we know we've talked about good
while ago well the best is simply one of
these el mejor
la mejor
those are both the singular formulas
okay the
structures
now even for the feminine we're using la
mejor we're not changing it
plural are going to be these los mejores
las mejores
okay
so they kind of stand all alone on their
own all right so now let's go back to
the word bad we talked about bad while
ago
here's the worst
el peor
la peor
los peores
las peores
okay
now let's look at an example
that is the biggest house in the
neighborhood
esa
la casa mas grande
del barrio
okay now you can notice this is like the
structure we did a while ago
but i'm going to show you a different
one too what if i'm just taking out some
of those words that house is what if i
just say
hey somebody asked me about that house
and i say it's the biggest in the
neighborhood okay i can say it like this
es
la mas grande
del barrio
see now i'm just pushing this together
la mas grande the most
big
okay
let's do an example with smallest
that is the smallest house in the
neighborhood
wow do you know how this is going to go
esa is la casa mas pequena del barrio
all right now let's condense that one
down
it's the smallest in the neighborhood
there you go just like the other one
just in using a different word
okay now we're going to go back to those
words i talked about a while ago
menor i told you we're going to talk
about those in a minute
well it's time now i just want to show
you the different uses of them first you
have el me el mayor la mayor los
mallores las mayores
okay and the same for the other one
okay
technically you will see these on
websites in textbooks taught as
structures that mean
what we talked about while ago you know
the bigger the biggest the smaller
smaller all that kind of thing
but honestly this you know again robin
and i talked about this and of course
she's a native speaker even we talked
about this and
again this is only in certain contexts
is it going to be
bigger or the biggest only a certain
context i'll give an example
maybe in the context of the greatest
struggle
or the least effort that has been put in
maybe in those contexts i'll give an
example
he put the least effort
into his presentation and that's why he
wasn't hired
that's a big long sentence but i'll use
it just to show you what we mean
that's a big sentence but you can see
in here el menor is fuerso the least
effort
so it has certain context that it works
in okay let's look at one with the other
one um
so this one uh one of the greatest let
me say that one of the major causes
we'll play it that way of world war ii
was the treaty of versailles again
another complex sentence here this is
what it would like in spanish
una de las maiores
causes de la segunda guerra
okay
big sentence kind of demonstrates what
i'm talking about all right
let's look at a few more
young
we talked about while ago hovind the
youngest we can say hermenor
la menor
los menores
las menores
old we said was viejo a while ago we
also said you could use mayor for older
so the oldest
mayor la mayor
los mallores las mayores
okay
amigos that was a pretty extensive
lesson but i really hope you've gotten a
lot out of this lesson
okay i just hope i've helped you out
maybe watch this a couple of times make
some notes form some sentences check
yourself put it into practice that's the
most important thing you can do speak in
conversation as much as you can now
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