breadth, width · latitude
çekim: çoğul Breiten · tamlayan Breiten
eş: Breitengrad
köken: From Middle High German breite, from Old High German breitī, from Proto-Germanic *braidį̄. Analysable as breit + -e. Compare English breadth.
aile: Breitheit
🔊 Tiere, die in rauem Klima leben, sind oft klüger als ihre Artgenossen aus gemäßigten Breiten, das legen verschiedene Studien nahe.
extremely
eş: au carré, très, comme tout
köken: From extrême + -ment.
masculine plural of mucho
the very · the most (superlative degree)
eş: этот, тот, сей, прямо, как раз, сам
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *samъ. By surface analysis, сам (sam) + -ый (-yj).
🔊 Я живу́ в са́мом це́нтре го́рода у са́мого па́рка.
🔊 Санкт-Петербу́рг са́мый краси́вый го́род в Росси́и.
Used to make adjectives superlative.
köken: From Proto-Common Turkic *eŋ. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰭 (ŋ /eŋ/), Uzbek eng, Kyrgyz эң (eŋ), Turkish en.
🔊 kiçik → ən kiçik small → the smallest
most (forms the superlative of many adjectives)
🔊 Иә, сен күштісің, бірақ ең емес Иә, сен байсың, бірақ ең емес Әп-әдемі, бірақ ең емес Сен мен емес, сен мен емес
the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)
köken: Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰭 (ŋ /eŋ/), Kazakh ең (eñ), Azerbaijani ən, Kyrgyz эң (eŋ), Turkish en, and Turkmen iň.
🔊 eng soʻnggi yangiliklar
appended to the stem of a verb, this suffix yields a verbal noun; it is similar in function to the Dutch suffix -ing
köken: From Proto-Germanic *-þiz. The -s- is the result of a wrong segmentation of stem and suffix of a noun in cases where the stem of the noun ended with -s-. For example: a word like Dutch vorst (“frost”) could be interpreted as vors+t or as vor+st. This suffix existed already in Gothic (𐌰𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (ansts), from *𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 (*unnan)).
🔊 vreemd (“strange”) → vreemdst (“strangest”)
forms the absolute superlative
köken: Borrowed from Latin -issimus. The borrowing occurred during the Renaissance influence from Italian -issimo.
🔊 caro (“expensive”) + -íssimo → caríssimo (“extremely expensive”)
🔊 feio (“ugly”) + -íssimo → feiíssimo (“extremely ugly”)
first, number one · game, round
eş: 一等, トップ, 最初, 最良, 最高
köken: From 一(いち) (ichi) + 番(ばん) (-ban).
aile: いの一番, 大一番, 開口一番, 緊褌一番, 此処一番, 大死一番, 春一番, 奮起一番, 結びの一番, 励声一番
🔊 一番美しい
🔊 一番上の引き出し
🔊 一番いい先生
most, -est
eş: 호주
köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞ자ᇰ〮 (Yale: kòcáng). Original meaning: "very, extremely". Superlative meaning ("most") from sixteenth century onward. Displaced previous superlative adverbs 안〮직 (Yale: áncìk), ᄆᆞᆺ〮 (Yale: mós).
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definite singular of flertal
used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs, taking the form of comparative as the basis; similar to most and -est
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *najь- Old Polish naj- Polish naj- Inherited from Old Polish naj-.
🔊 naj- + głodny → najgłodniejszy
🔊 naj- + prawdopodobnie → najprawdopodobniej
prefix added to the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs to form the superlative form
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *najь-. From parts *na and particle *i. Approximates to prefix *nad-. Compare Russian наи- (nai-), Polish naj-, Serbo-Croatian naj-, Slovak naj- Slovene naj-, Czech nej-, Macedonian нај- (naj-), Bulgarian най- (naj-).
🔊 най- (naj-) + більший (bilʹšyj) → найбі́льший (najbílʹšyj)
🔊 най- (naj-) + новіший (novišyj) → найновіший (najnovišyj)
🔊 най- (naj-) + нижчий (nyžčyj) → найнижчий (najnyžčyj)
most, greatest in quantity
zıt: न्यूनतम
köken: Borrowed from Sanskrit अधिकतम (adhikatama), superlative of अधिक (adhika).
genitive singular of äärimmäinen
🔊 Urpo on äärimmäisen hyvä shakinpelaaja.
superlative degree of hodně · superlative degree of mnoho · most
quite, very, rather, highly
çekim: çoğul igenek
köken: Probably a lexicalization of i, an early variant of the demonstrative pronoun e /ez (“this”). Possibly formed with -g /-ig (terminative suffix) (compare míg and possibly leg-) and -en (adverb-forming suffix) (compare hogyan, ígyen). In its original sense, it was probably used to express emphasis. First attested in 1266. According to Johanson (2004), borrowed from a Turkic particle egen ~ igen…
aile: igencsak, igen-igen
Most, the most.
köken: From הֲ־ (ha-, interrogative particle) + כִּי (kí, “thus”).
🔊 היא הילדה הכי גבוהה בכיתה.
vocative masculine singular of -issimus
majority
zıt: thiểu số
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 多數.
more often · mostly · above all
köken: по́вече (póveče) + -то (-to)
Slovakça 🔊 väčšina (dişil) /væt͡ʃːina/ majority
zıt: menšina
köken: Etymology tree Slovak väčší Slovak -ina Slovak väčšina From väčší + -ina.
🔊 drvivá väčšina