Translation for 'superlative' from English to Finnish

superlative

superlatiivi {noun}kiel.

• Russell Ultan (1972) surveyed 20 languages and observed that the comparative and superlative are inflected forms of (near-)identical bases with respective to the positive and equative.
• In Estonian, the superlative form can usually be formed in two ways.
• Sweden's superlative trees have been ranked by various factors. Records have been kept for trees with superlative height, wood volume, age, and stoutness. This last one means trunk diameter or girth.
• The superlative simply combines the adverb "khà" "very" with "jù": "rámá jù khà" "best" (lit. ...
• The comparative definition is contained within the superlative one and thus, the superlative must obligatorily subsume it in its structure.

• Comparative and superlative adverbs are formed in the same manner as comparative and superlative adjectives: by placing a specific particle before the adverb receiving the comparison.
• First and second declension adjectives that end in "-eus" or "-ius" are unusual in that they do not form the comparative and superlative by taking endings at all.
• Because the definite article is, along with "más" or "menos", the superlative marker, the comparative is grammatically indistinguishable from the superlative when it is used; an additional qualifier phrase such as "de los dos" ("of the two") must therefore be used to indicate that the adjective is the comparative.
• , and superlative adjectives are formed by suffixing [...].
• There is no superlative suffix in Udmurt. Superlative is expressed with the Russian particle " [...] " or indefinitive expressions " [...] ", " [...] " or " [...] ".