Comparing with Adverbs
Spanish: Cambridge International GCSE, topic 11.11.3
Comparisons
When using adverbs to compare people or things, you use them in the same way as adjectives. You use them with the same structure (más que, menos que etc). For adverbs the structure is: más/menos/tan etc + adverb + que (como for tan).
Más, menos, tan
- Come más rapidamente que yo.
- He eats more quickly than I do.
- Mi hermano es menos fuerte que yo.
- My brother is less strong than I am.
- Corres tan rapidamente como él.
- You run as quickly as him.
Absolute superlative
- Some adverbs can use, what is called, the absolute superlative.
- To form it you add 'ísimo' to the adverb.
- Muchísimo
- So much.
- There are 3 irregulars:
- Cerquísima.
- Very close.
- Poquísimo.
- Very little.
- Lejísimos.
- Very far.
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