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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes  Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 9 of 11 19 April 2014 at 10:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Aha, so only adjectives get the adjective endings for comparatives.
My dictionary says lieber is the comparative of lieb, which is an adjective. So should lieber also not be an adjective? In addition to being an adverb as the comparative of gern. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4522 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 10 of 11 20 April 2014 at 12:01am | IP Logged | ||
works, but other collocations sound often better (using "netter", "niedlicher", etc. instead) in attributive position eg. "Ein lieberes Kind ist mir nicht bekannt" sounds ok, but "Ein lieberes Haus ist mir nicht bekannt" sounds odd, even though "Das ist ein liebes Haus" sounds ok to me. "Ein niedlicheres Haus ist mir nicht bekannt" sounds ok though. Edited by daegga on 20 April 2014 at 12:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 11 20 April 2014 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh I actually forgot the comparative form of lieb, because the adverb is more common. And as daegga said, there are some constraints on usage.
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