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17 Cards in this Set
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1) In order to compare people or things that are not equal...
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Use
más/menos + adjective/noun/adverb + que |
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Examples
Buenos Aires is larger than Lima. Madrid has fewer inhabitants than Buenos Aires. |
Buenos Aires es más grande que Lima.
Madrid tiene menos habitantes que Buenos Aires. |
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2) When comparing unequal actions and ways of doing things, use the following structure...
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verb + más/menos + que
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Example
Andrés recycles less than Nicolás |
Andrés recicla menos que Nicolás.
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3) Some adjectives have irregular comparative forms:
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All are followed by "que"
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Regular
más bueno/a -->nicer, kinder |
Irregular
mejor -->better |
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Regular
más malo/a -->behaves badly |
Irregular
peor -->worse |
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Regular
más viejo/a -->older (thing) |
Irregular
mayor -->older (person) |
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Regular
más pequeño/a -->smaller, younger |
Irregular
meno -->younger (person) |
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Example
Glass containers are better than plastic ones for the environment. |
Los envases de vidrio son mejores que los de plástico para el medio ambiente.
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4) With numbers and quantities use...
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más/menos de...
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Example
They planted more than one thousand trees. |
Example
Ellos sembraron más de mil árboles. |
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Further comparisons
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Expressing Equality
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1) To compare people, things, or actions that are the same, use this structure:
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tan + adjective/adverb + como
tanto/a/os/as + noun + como verb + tanto como tanto/tanta = as much tantos/tantas = as many Make sure to agree with gender and number |
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Examples
The air in Santiago de Chile is contaminated as the air in Mexico City. Ecologists help as much as they can. |
El aire de Santiago de Chile está tan contaminado como el aire de la ciudad de México.
Los ecólogos ayudan tanto como pueden. |
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2) To express equality between two nouns, this expression is also used...
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el mismo + noun + que
la misma + noun + que |
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Examples
Roberto has the same names as his father. We brought the same tourist guide as you did. |
Roberto tiene el mismo nombre que su padre.
Nosotros compramos la misma guía turística que tú. |
