How to Compare in Arabic The Elative Comparative Superlative Adjectives اسم التفضيل

hello everybody and welcome to Arabic with Amina your online Arabic teacher in today's video we are going to be learning about the comparative and superlative adjectives you might be wondering what are comparative and superlative adjectives well comparative adjectives are used to compare two or more things or people for example the red apple is bigger than the green or the red apple is more expensive than the green whereas superlative adjectives are used to describe the highest degree of particular quality which means we are comparing one thing to multiple things for example the red apple is the biggest or the red apple is the most expensive we can also compare based on superiority with the assistance of the word more for example the red apple is more expensive than the green also of equality using the word like the red apple is small like the green and of inferiority using the word less the red apple is less expensive than the green we'll start off by using comparative of superiority adjectives in English there are two ways to do so we can add to the adjective and use the word than for example the red apple is bigger than the green or we can include the word more before the adjective the red apple is more expensive than the green in Arabic it's similar for both ways we'll start off with the first way where we add to the adjective and use the word than in Arabic we will take our adjective and have it in the form of Avan and then we will follow it by the word Min which means then so if we want to say bigger than the root of bigger is kabara and we are going to put it in the form of Afghan which means we are going to add alif to the beginning of it Akbar and then we are including then min so akbaramin means bigger than and to complete the translation of the entire sentence the red apple is bigger than the green we would say let's try it again with another sentence Ali is taller than Ahmed again we are using the form of adjective plus them in Arabic our rule would be afan plus min meaning we add alif to the main form of the adjective our main root for the word taller is and we are going to add alif to the beginning and then follow it by the word than or min so it becomes and to complete the sentence and say Ali is taller than Ahmad we are going to say Ahmad very simple and very straightforward and similar to English now on to the second method where we use the word more for example Fatima is more beautiful than sumayya in English we have the word more followed by an adjective Then followed by the word than in Arabic it is very similar we have the word which is more after aksar we are not going to put the adjective instead we are going to put the noun and after that we are going to put van or min so the adjective of beautiful would be Jamila but we are not using the adjective we will be using the noun so the noun of beautiful is beauty or Jamal now we are going to put this into our formula of akther plus noun plus min and we end up with more beautiful than something to note here is that when we add the noun and use this method using assistant word more the noun will have feta tenly always that is why we changed it from Jamal to jamalan so more beautiful than is Fatima is more beautiful than sumayya we say we're going to do it another time to make sure we fully grasp this concept we have our sentence this tree is more green than that one we are using the word more with an adjective and then in Arabic the rule would be aksar which is more plus noun plus min the noun in Arabic for green is we are going to input this into our little rule so it becomes more green than to complete the translation of the sentence this tree is more green than that one now moving on to comparative of equality when we are to compare two equal things we use the word like in English the red apple is small like the green we have our practice sentence here which says she is smart like her sister the key is the word like and in Arabic the word like would be methyl so we are going to say she is smart like her sister comparative equality is pretty straightforward and simple we use the word like which is mythil moving on to comparative of inferiority the red apples are less expensive than the green here we are using the word less followed by our adjective followed by than in Arabic very similar the word less is akal and same way we did with comparative of superiority it will be followed by the noun and not the adjective and then by the word min the noun of expensive is teclufa put it in our rule it becomes min similar to when we said the noun will have tenuine on it always so less expensive than is and to complete the translation of the sentence the red apples are less expensive than the green so we explained how to use comparative adjectives in Arabic we said comparative adjectives that are used to compare two things or people in English there are multiple ways to do so we can add to the adjective and follow it by the word than or we can use assistant words such as more like and less now we will be talking about the superlative adjectives which compare one thing to multiple things in English there are two ways we add EST to the end of the adjective or reuse the word most followed by the adjective and in Arabic there are also two ways we will have an appropriate pronoun and we will have the adjective in the form of aval but we will add or the definite article the to the word afal so it will be pronoun Plus if you're not familiar with what Allah Tarif is talk about it in my video of four ways to make noun definite in Arabic you can check it out there the second method is to take the adjective in the form afan and add it to an addition or an annexation evolva we will be explaining both ways starting off with the sentence the red apple is the biggest to say the biggest we are adding EST to the end of the adjective to say this in Arabic we are going to take our rule of pronoun which is the and the adjective in the form afal the root word of big is kabara put it in the form of afal it becomes Akbar which is bigger and we mentioned in the beginning of this video and then we are going to add letter or the word the to it making it biggest so the red apple is the biggest we have the pronoun he and we have our adjective in the form of al-afal which is for the second method we will be using the sentence Muhammad is the best student here we are defining what Muhammad is the best at it is defined by the word student we have best student so in Arabic that would be the adjective in the form of afal or an annexation the root of best in Arabic is father to put it in the afile form we will add alif to the beginning and say AFL or annexation or ilava here is student which in Arabic is best student finish the translation Muhammad is the best student when we are using this form and we have an annexation added after our adjective we do not use the definite particle Al or the recall how we would use comparative adjectives using the word more for example Fatima is more beautiful than sumayya in Arabic we took the word akhtar followed it by the noun and by min foreign well we can also make superlative adjective from the word more which is equivalent to the word most in English Fatima is the most beautiful to do so in Arabic we take the word akhtar add to it Allah tariff so it becomes and we will not be including the word Min which is than is still followed by noun but it is also preceded by pronoun is the most beautiful we will say Fatima yamalan we have our pronoun here we have al-aqtar and the noun of beauty Jamal fatuma here we can also do the same with using the word less the red apples are less expensive than the green our role in Arabic was using the word akal followed by the noun followed by men we can change this into superlative adjective where we are using the word least the red apples are the least expensive to do so is similar to the method in the previous slide we take the word akal add to it Allah tariff remove the word Min or then have al-akal followed by the noun and preceded by pronoun so the red apples are the least expensive our pronoun is who we have al-akal with Allah tariff and then we have the noun taklufa know we covered lot of information in this video so want to take moment and recall everything that we learned all the rules we talked about comparative adjectives and we know in English that there are multiple ways to compare between two things we can take the adjective add to the end of it and use the word than which the equivalent in Arabic would be to put the adjective in the form of afal followed by min so in English bigger than in Arabic akbaramini second way was with the use of the word more where we had more followed by an adjective followed by them equivalent of that in Arabic was akhtar plus noun not adjective plus mean so more beautiful than Jamal and Mini we also use the word like where we had the adjective followed by the word like and in Arabic it was the exact same we had the adjective followed by the word Mithun so smart like the Kia methyl and finally we use the word less followed by an adjective followed by them and in Arabic this was akal followed by noun not adjective followed by min so less expensive than me we also learned about the superlative adjectives where we are comparing one thing to multiple things in English we had the adjective where we add EST to it for example biggest and in Arabic there were two ways to do so we add the definite particle Allah tariff to the adjective in the form of making it so biggest would be or we had the adjective in the form of afal followed by an annexation or ilofa foreign the biggest bag the second way we can use superlative adjectives in English was using the word the most followed by an adjective in Arabic we had pronoun followed by the word al-aqtar followed by noun so is the most beautiful in Arabic we would say the third method was using the word least followed by adjective and in Arabic it was very similar it was pronoun followed by al-akal followed by noun so is the least expensive take moment to appreciate the similarities between comparative and superlative rules in Arabic now that we are finished with our lesson we are going to have short quiz our first question is fill in the blank Shams blank El Camaro what want you to say in this sentence is actually the sun is bigger than the moon the missing piece here is bigger than if the root of the word bigger in Arabic is kabara how would we fill in the blank to say the sun is bigger than the moon to say the sun is bigger than the moon we would say we add alif to the root making it Akbar bigger and we include the word than which is min Al our second exercise want you to say this is the fastest car on the street the blank here is fastest if the root word for fastest is how would we fill in the blank foreign and we are not including the word than because we are not comparing it to something else instead we are comparing it to multiple things so this is superlative adjective this is the fastest car on the street our third exercise is going to be little bit different we have the sentence Ali Ahmed is more diligent than Ali this is comparative we are comparing between Ahmed and Ali want you to change it to the superlative adjective and say Ahmed is the most diligent how would you do so okay in order to do so using the word the most we have our rule of pronoun followed by al-aqtar followed by noun we already know the noun because we have it in the previous sentence after akhtar so we have akhtar followed by the noun HD hadan and then min we're going to remove min and include pronoun before and just keep Ahmad we are no longer comparing to Ali so to say Ahmad is the most diligent we will say Ahmad and that's it for today's lesson if you enjoyed this video and found it beneficial please do subscribe for more videos make sure to share this video with all your other Arabic learning friends and like 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