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All regular adjectives may form a comparative with the addition of ''-ar'' and a superlative with ''-ast'' (e.g. ''aud'' 'old' → ''audar, audast'', ''healie'' 'holy' → ''healiar, healiast''). | All regular adjectives may form a comparative with the addition of ''-ar'' and a superlative with ''-ast'' (e.g. ''aud'' 'old' → ''audar, audast'', ''healie'' 'holy' → ''healiar, healiast''). | ||
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! style="width: 100px;" |Positive | |||
! style="width: 100px;" |Comparative | |||
| style="width: 100px;" |Superlative | |||
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| bad | ''il'' | ''wer, werṡ'' | ''werst'' | |||
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| good | ''geod'' | ''beter'' | ''best'' | |||
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| large | ''micel'' | ''mear, mea'' | ''meast'' | |||
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| small | ''liytel, liyl'' | ''leiṡ'' | leist''. | |||
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| near | ''nar'' | ''narmar'' | ''narmast'' | |||
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The alternative endings ''-mar'' and ''-mast'' are also sometimes added colloquially to other adjectives, creating forms such as ''betermar, betermast''. | |||
The comparative adjective is frequently used with ''an'' 'than' (e.g. ''Cetel 's mear an Micel'' 'Cetel's bigger than Michael'). An equative structure can be created with the adverbs ''auṡ ... auṡ'' or ''swea ... auṡ'' and the positive adjective (e.g. ''auṡ hwiyt auṡ snea'' 'as white as snow', ''swea stil auṡ a muuṡ'' 'as quiet as mouse'). | |||
===Numerals=== | ===Numerals=== | ||