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Conlangery #120: Adjectives

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Comparatives and Superlatives, Not All Languages Have These.

Not all languages have comparatives and superlatives, so you have to come up with other ways to express them. Having a separate comparative form with some sort of morphological marking is actually quite rare outside of the Indo-European language. French uses the definite article combined with the comparative. With surpass or exceed in the comparative, sometimes it's just like it's exceeding all. That's how you do it superlative sometimes. You are just better than everyone. But I just want to mention the possibility that senses like very or most or extremely can be separate words, but you can also have effectively derivational forms for all of these. And that's the preferred way to mark a scale

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