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Degree: degree of comparison

Values: Abs Cmp Pos Sup Dim Aug

Degree of comparison is typically an inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs. Modern Greek marks morphologically the positive, comparative and absolute superlative degree while the superlative degree of adjectives is composite (definite article + comparative degree).

Pos: positive, first degree

This is the base form that merely states a quality of something, without comparing it to qualities of others. The adverbs express a manner.

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Adjectives

Adverbs

Cmp: comparative, second degree

The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object. The adverbs express a comparison of manners.

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Adjectives

Adverbs

Sup: superlative, third degree

The quality of an object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set. It is formed periphrastically with the definite article and the comparative form of the adjective or with the adverb πιο “more” and the positive form of the adjective; no second entity introduced with the preposition από “than” is introduced, instead the group in which the comparison is valid is expressed in some other way, e.g. a noun phrase marked with the genitive case.

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Adjectives

Abs: absolute superlative

The adjective expresses morphologically that the studied 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. The adverbs express the highest degree of a manner.

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Adjectives

Adverbs

Modern Greek expresses degree modification of nouns, adjectives, past participles and adverbs with a set of prefixes and suffixes (and a set of syntactic means); suffixation may change the gender of the noun, e.g., χέρι “hand” (neutral) vs. χερούκλα “large hand” (feminine), άντρας “man” (masculine) vs. αντράκι “little/insignificant/bully man” (neuter).

All affixation cases are assigned the lemma of the original word and the feature el-DegreeMod takes one of the two available values, namely Dim or Aug.

Dim: diminutive

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Aug: augmentative

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