Degree: degree of comparison
Degree of comparison is used as an inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs.
Cmp: comparative, second degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object.
Examples
- Luigi è migliore di me “Luigi is better than me”
- Il prezzo è inferiore “The price is lower”
Sup: superlative, third degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set.
Italian does not seem to have single words for ‘relative’ superlatives, such as [en] “youngest”. One would say instead:
Examples
- Luigi è il più giovane “Luigi is the most young”
Abs: absolute superlative
The quality of the given object is so strong that there is hardly any other object exceeding it. The quality is not actually compared to any particular set of objects.
Examples
- bellissimo “very beatiful”, massimo “maximum”, malissimo “very badly”, ottimo “optimum”
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