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====Comparison==== | ====Comparison==== | ||
Comparative adjectives | Comparative adjectives decline only for number and gender, not case. They are formed with the following suffixes: | ||
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The comparative is used in two forms of sentence: | |||
* with the copula, e.g. ''ih keu sant kænju ið sau'' 'this dog is nicer than that one' | |||
* with a relative clause, e.g. ''rái-sei í koylju'' 'the woman who is thinner'. | |||
Superlative adjectives take ''-jau''<sup><small>I</small></sup>, which declines like an a/o-stem adjective: | |||
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! width="40px;" rowspan="2;" | !! colspan="3;" | Singular !! colspan="3;" | Plural | |||
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! width="50px;" | Masc. !! width="50px;" | Neut. !! width="50px;" | Fem. !! width="50px;" | Masc. !! width="50px;" | Neut. !! width="50px;" | Fem. | |||
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! Nom. | |||
| colspan="2;" | ''-jau'' || ''-javo'' || ''-jevi'' || colspan="2;" | ''-javo'' | |||
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! Acc. | |||
| colspan="3;" | ''-jau'' || ''-jou'' || colspan="2;" | ''-javo'' | |||
|- | |||
! Gen. | |||
| colspan="2;" | ''-jey'' || ''-javo'' || colspan="2;" | ''-jau'' || ''-javon'' | |||
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! Dat. | |||
| colspan="2;" | ''-jou'' || ''-jave'' || colspan="2;" | ''-javau'' || ''-javou'' | |||
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The following adjectives are compared irregularly: | The following adjectives are compared irregularly: | ||