Superlatives
A word that describes the most of something: the biggest, strongest, fastest. are used to compare things and say which one is the biggest, strongest, fastest, etc or the most/least. For example:
- Mi casa es la más grande (My house is the biggest).
- Ana es la menos trabajadora (Ana is the least hardworking).
This is how to form superlatives:
Irregular superlatives
These superlatives are Something that does not follow regular patterns and may have a different form. and don't follow the same pattern, eg:
Es la peor asignatura (It's the worst subject).
| el/la mejor, los/las mejores | the best |
| el/la peor, los/las peores | the worst |
| el/la mayor, los/las mayores | the oldest |
| el/la menor, los/ las menores | the youngest |
| el/la mejor, los/las mejores |
| the best |
| el/la peor, los/las peores |
| the worst |
| el/la mayor, los/las mayores |
| the oldest |
| el/la menor, los/ las menores |
| the youngest |
Question
Change the adjectives in these sentences into superlatives.
Example: La casa es grande (The house is big) → La casa es la más grande (The house is the biggest).
- El estudiante es inteligente (The student is intelligent).
- La película es mala (The film is bad).
- Los bocadillos son deliciosos (The sandwiches are delicious).
- Las playas son buenas (The beaches are good).
- El estudiante es el más/el menos inteligente (The student is the most/least intelligent).
- La película es la peor (The film is the worst). Here, the irregular superlative la peor is used.
- Los bocadillos son los más/menos deliciosos (The sandwiches are the most/least delicious).
- Las playas son las mejores (The beaches are the best). Here, the irregular superlative las mejores is used.
Absolute superlatives
If something is so amazingly good or bad that it can't be compared to anything, then you need the absolute superlative, eg las pizzas son grandísimas (the pizzas are really, really big). This is formed by removing the final vowel from the Used to describe nouns and must agree with the nouns they are describing. (if there is one) and adding the ending -ísimo (or -ísima/-ísimos/-ísimas) to make sure it agrees with the The name of a thing such as an object, a place or a person. Nouns are often described as naming words.. For example:
bueno → buenísimo
malo → malísimo
grande → grandísimo
