Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Adjetives
- Adjectives are those words that we use to
describe or characterize a person, a place or
anything else.
- They
indicate
- How is?
- I want to eat something fresh and sweet.
- How many are?
- You have eight dogs.
- Adjective types
- Demonstratives
- Possessives
- Quantities
- Its different forms
- Positive
- According to the dictionary
- Comparative
- Comparison between
two or more persons
- Superlative
- Comparative
- Compare persons
- er in the verb ending
- Tall/ alto Taller/ mas
alto
- If the adjective ends in "-y", we
change this last letter to "-i" and then
add the suffix or ending "-er"
- Crazy/Loco
Crazier/mas loco
- If the adjective ends in consonant - vowel
- consonant, and the stress of the word is
on the last syllable, we double the last
consonant and add the suffix "-er".
- Big/grande
Bigger/mas grande
- After the adjective with its
respective ending, the word
than/that must be used to establish
the comparison.
- Francisco is fatter than
Cristina
- In some cases the adjective must
be preceded by the term more
- Camila is more intelligent than Manuela.
- To indicate that something or
someone is less than another thing
or person, before the adjective you
must add the word less
- My car has a less powerful engine than yours
- A superlative adjective is what we use to express
that something or someone is the most
outstanding in some aspect.
- To construct them, the ending "-est"
must be added at the end of the
adjective and the article the must be
placed before it.
- He is the funniest guy of my group.
- If a word ends with a consonant followed
by "-y", we change the "-y" to "-i" and
then add "-est".
- I was the angriest person.
- If the adjective ends with a
consonant-vowel-consonant, and the stress is
on the last syllable, we double the last
consonant and then add the ending "-est".
- This is the hottest beverage.
- We add "most" to long words, i.e., if
the word is longer than two syllables
and does not end with "-y".
- These are the most expensive shoes in the store.
- Some adjectives do not follow these
rules, but change completely as
comparatives and superlatives.