Learn the COMPARATIVE and SUPERLATIVE in Spanish

Learn how to use the comparative and superlative form in Spanish. This Spanish lesson for beginners or advanced students that need a reminder. Here you will learn a lot of vocabulary on this subject with many sentences as examples (translated in English) that can you can use either on holidays or on normal days while speaking spanish. Learn Spanish on YouTube.

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Hola hola, soy Tomás. Your favorite Spanish teacher

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Something you need whenever you learn a new language, especially Spanish: the comparative and superlative forms

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When do I need to use the comparative form in Spanish?

When you are comparing two or more things with each other.

Duhh!!

Here I will focus on two degrees of comparison: comparative and superlative.

What?

Don't worry. I’ll make it easy. Let’s start with comparative.

Pedro es más inteligente que Francisco.

Here I’m comparing Pedro and Francisco with each other and saying that Pedro is smarter than Francisco.

Ok, so this is like in English when you say: faster than… slower than… prettier than…?

Exacto! Or when you use “more” plus an adjective or an adverb plus “than” in english, like: Ricardo is more reliable than Tim.

“More… than”

Ricardo es más fiable que Tim. Ricardo es más fiable que Tim.

But in Spanish we always use: MÁS + ADJETIVO / ADVERBIO + QUE

Más rápido que…, más lento que…, más guapo que...

Soy más guapo que tú. Soy más guapo que tú.

I knew you were gonna say something stupid like that!

So you only use “más… que” in Spanish?

Yes!

Always?!

YES!.. Well, you know there are always exception…, with these four adjectives one uses “a” instead of “que”:
inferior a, superior a, anterior a, posterior a

Yo soy superior a ti. Yo soy superior a ti.

HAHAHAHA

The superlative is the highest comparative form. It’s like: “THE MOST…” or “THE LEAST…” Whatever in English!

Correcto! In spanish you form the superlative with:
El más...
La más...
Los más ...
Las más…

That’s when you mean “the most…” and it all depends if you talk about a feminine or masculine noun or in plural...

El menos…
La menos…
Los menos…
Las menos… When you mean “the least…” Por ejemplo:

Pedro es el más inteligente.
Pedro es el más inteligente.

Here I only need one noun because I am not comparing Pedro to anyone else.

Ricardo es el más fiable. Ricardo es el más fiable.

Nor Ricardo.

Maria es la más rápida. Rosa es la más trabajadora.

And when you want to express that someone is the least…

Ricardo es el menos inteligente. Rosa es la menos simpática.

OJO

OJO

Something important I want to point out is that some adjectives have irregular comparative forms:

I knew this was too easy!

Hey, I said I will make it easy!

Bueno, mejor, el mejor. Here you don't say: “más bueno”, but “mejor” and normally you wouldn’t say “el más bueno”, but “el mejor”

Oh, it’s like in English: good, better, the best!

Exactly! Very easy!

And the other exceptions? malo, peor, el peor

poco, menos. There is no superlative here.
Mucho, más. There is no superlative here either.
Ok, like "bad, worse, the worst"

And the last ones are…?

Grande, mayor, el mayor
Pequeño, menor, el menor

Esta es la mejor lección de español.

Eso es todo por hoy!

Muchas gracias!

Y… SUSCRÍBETE

ADIOS!

Muchas gracias!
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[Mysterious_Butterfly]

Thanks! You’re very quick and to the point. Much more helpful than my Spanish teacher!!

[beratvin]

Thank you! Your video was helpful to me while I was struggling with this form

[pelican]

Thank you so much. You make it really easy to understand. ♥️

[MrYeung-nzpw]

You're funny as hell and really helped. Thank you

[GoldenMoose]

Dude you did such a great job on this video. My step sister/girlfriend and I are trying to learn for our test tomorrow. This video is so entertaining and helpful so thanks so much!

[sportsstarsshorts]

I really liked how you took the video like in a class

[tiffanyhyman]

Thanks for this lesson! It was very helpful.

[meins-srig]

I really love this video, will watch more, this was quick and easy to understand muchas gracias profe! :D

[harvey]

Thank goodness I found you! So funny and really unlocked this concept for me. Gracias!

[MarcoCastilloVideos]

Hey muy bien, te quedo increible, gracias!

[erimsee]

No he sabido todavía, dass du auch einen Englischen Kanal hast. Entonces voy a empezar to learn Spanish with an english teacher.

[affafzina]

You are very funny 😀.thank you for the lesson

[ro_orr]

That was soo useful and fun thank you :) 💕

[goge_]

yo busque como leer el ingles de comparativo y superlativo de esta manera pero me salió al revés y se siente muy diferente que desde otro lugar estudien tu lengua así xd, espero que me entiendan como mínimo 1 parraba ( se puede usar Google xd)

[swaritkumar]

Thanks a million ton, no wait a billion ton

[ionmatias]

No sé que hago viendo videos de calses de español si ya se español XD, Buen video

[johnharvey]

Gracias por este video. Siempre he estado muy confundido sobre este asunto. O possiblemente... Siempre me ha confundido este tema.

[Ryan-J]

When you say “yo soy superior a ti” why is it “a ti” instead of “a tu”?

[Ari-qwtw]

Que fea introducción y no vuelvo a este canal. Bye