You just finished doing comparatives.

Now you’re
going to do superlatives.

In English, we have what we call the

positive form, tall gorgeous
the comparative form, taller more gorgeous
and the superlative form. tallest most gorgeous

Spanish doesn’t have that, exactly, but if you just think of

“más” as meaning both “more” AND “most,” both the
comparative and superlative are very similar to English.
The comparative is for when you’re talking about two people or things:

Addison is more beautiful than Meredith.

Addison es más hermosa que Meredith.

The superlative is for when you’re talking about three or more people or
things:

Addison is the most beautiful of all.

Addison es la más hermosa de todas.
 As you can see, if you use “most” rather than “-est” (which, like “-er,”
doesn’t exist in Spanish), the word order is identical to English:

Addison is the most beautiful of all.

Addison es la más hermosa de todas.

However, you need to note that if you put a noun in the superlative
expression, it will come BEFORE “más + adjective.”

Addison is the most beautiful woman of all.

Addison es la mujer más hermosa de todas.

But that should be no surprise, since, as you learned in chapter 2,

adjectives normally come after the noun they describe:

noun adjective
Addison es una mujer hermosa.
So there are three (little) things that make the superlative in Spanish
different from the superlative in English:

1. The fact that you always have to use “most” and not something like “-
est” that you can put on the end of the adjective:

Bill Gates es el más rico de nuestro país.

Bill Gates is the richest in our country.

2. The fact that you have to put the noun BEFORE “más + adjective”:

Bill Gates es el hombre más rico de nuestro país.

Bill Gates is the richest man in our country.

3. The fact that you have to say “de” in Spanish where we usually say “in”
in English:

Bill Gates es el más rico de nuestro país.

Bill Gates is the richest in our country.
Watch out for the irregular ones!

Remember mejor, peor, mayor, menor?

Since they mean better, worse, older, younger,
they also mean best, worst, oldest, youngest.

 Juan es el mejor estudiante de la clase.

 Juan is the best student in the class.
 Juan es el peor estudiante de la clase.
 Juan is the worst student in the class.
 Juan es el mayor estudiante de la clase.
 Juan is the oldest student in the class.
 Juan es el menor estudiante de la clase.
 Juan is the youngest student in the class.
• I always tell (funny) jokes.

• He is (popular) singer in the world.

• Who is (good) singer in the world?

• I always tell the funniest jokes.

• He is the most popular singer in the

world.

• Who is the best singer in the world?

• My brother is (tall) in the class.

• Who is shorter (short) person in

your family?

• It´s (big) house I've lived in.

• My brother is the tallest in the
class.

• Who is shorter the shortest

person in your family?

• It´s the biggest house I've lived

in.
• He´s (boring) person that I know.

• It was (cold) day of the year.

• It was (bad) mistake I made.

• He´s the most boring person that
I know.

• It was the coldest day of the year.

• It was the worst mistake I made.

• It’s (good) film I've
seen.

• It was (happy) day of

my life.
• It’s the best film I've
seen.

• It was the happiest day

of my life.