Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

Common adjectives have three forms: regular, comparative, and superlative.

Illustrations:

• White (དཀར་པོ།), whiter (དཀར་བ།), whitest (དཀར་ཤོས།)
• Long (རིང་པོ།), longer (རིང་བ།), longest (རིང་ཤོས།)

Superlative works the same as the common adjective.

Comparatives use the Fifth Case (usually the ལས་སྒྲ།) to mark what they are whiter, longer, etc. than.

Illustrations:

• Bigger than that house ཁང་པ་དེ་ལས་ཆེ་བ།
• There are more snow mountains in Tibet than in India བོད་ལ་རྒྱ་གར་ལས་གངས་རི་མང་བ་ཡོད།

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