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6.8 Comparing things: "bigger," "than," "the biggest"

6 · Adjectives — describing things · a plain-language guide to Assyrian (Sureth) grammar

Assyrian doesn't reshape the adjective for comparison the way English adds -er. Instead it puts bush "more" in front:

• gura "big" → bush gura "bigger"
• rama "tall" → bush rama "taller"
• and you can pile on raba "very": raba bush … "much more …"

To add "than," use men "than/from" (the preposition from Chapter 8) after the adjective. For "the most / the _-est," bush again carries the load, with context or kulle "all" ("the biggest of all") doing the superlative work. The full mechanics — where men sits, how the superlative is framed — live in the Syntax chapter; for now, bush + adjective gets you comfortably through most comparisons.

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