{"id":153,"date":"2012-01-01T21:23:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/school-e.co.uk\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2020-05-31T17:59:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:59:28","slug":"comparative-adjectives-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/comparative-adjectives-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative adjectives in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>In Spanish we use the comparative degree when comparing two objects, persons, or ideas.<\/h1>\n<p>To form a comparative adjective, in <b>Spanish<\/b>, you have to use m\u00e1s (more) or menos (less) or tan (the same):<\/p>\n<p>Ella es m\u00e1s alta que yo\u00a0 (She is taller than me)<\/p>\n<p>La ciudad es menos tranquila que el pueblo (City is less calm than the village)<\/p>\n<p>Inglaterra es tan fr\u00eda como Irlanda (England is as cold as Ireland)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>So, comparatives (comparativos in Spanish) are said to refer to superiority (m\u00e1s\u00a6que), inferiority (menos\u00a6que) or equality (tan\u00a6como).<\/h2>\n<p>The second element in the comparation can be:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>&#8211; Another example of an adjective in Spanish:<\/h3>\n<p>Los gatos son m\u00e1s listos que malos\u00a0 (cats are more clever than naughty)<\/p>\n<h3>&#8211; Another example of a noun in Spanish:<\/h3>\n<p>Los gatos son m\u00e1s peque\u00f1os que los tigres (cats are smaller than tigers)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Another example of an adverb in <i>Spanish<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>Los gatos son m\u00e1s limpios que antes (cats are cleaner than before)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Another example of an adverb in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spanish<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>En casa se come mejor que en un restaurante (You can eat better at home than in a restaurant)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A verb clause:<\/p>\n<p>Sabes m\u00e1s espa\u00f1ol de lo que piensas (You know more Spanish than you think you do)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Irregular comparatives<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Bueno\/a\/os\/as (good) changes to mejor\/es (better)<\/p>\n<p>La playa es buena \/ La playa es mejor que la monta\u00f1a<\/p>\n<p>(The beach is good \/ The beach is better that the mountain)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Malo\/a\/os\/as (bad) changes to peor\/es (worse)<\/p>\n<p>La grasa es mala \/ La grasa es peor que la fibra<\/p>\n<p>(Fat is bad \/ Fat is worse than fiber)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Grande\/es (big) changes to mayor\/es (bigger)<\/p>\n<p>Londres es grande \/ Londres es mayor que Barcelona<\/p>\n<p>(London is big \/ London is bigger than Barcelona)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Peque\u00f1o\/a\/os\/as (small) changes to menor (Smaller)<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona es peque\u00f1a \/ Barcelona es m\u00e1s peque\u00f1a que Londres<\/p>\n<p>(Barcelona is small \/ Barcelona is smaller than London)<\/p>\n<p>We hope we helped with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spanish<\/a> adjectives. (Spanish info)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spanish we use the comparative degree when comparing two objects, persons, or ideas. To form a comparative adjective, in Spanish, you have to use m\u00e1s (more) or menos (less) or tan (the same): Ella es m\u00e1s alta que yo\u00a0 (She is taller than me) La ciudad es menos tranquila que el pueblo (City is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/comparative-adjectives-in-spanish\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Comparative adjectives in Spanish<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[792,793,7],"tags":[251,252,249,250,26,463,14,16,619,24,19],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4464,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/4464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.school-e.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}