Get ready to dive into the topic “Degrees of comparison”. The basic form of an adjective is called positive (Examples: interessant – interesting, klein – small, einfach – easy), the next higher level is comparative (Examples: interessanter – more interesting, kleiner – smaller, einfacher – easier) and the highest level of intensification is superlative (Examples: am interessantesten – the most interesting, am kleinsten – the smallest, am einfachsten – the easiest).

The comparative compares two people or objects and indicates a difference:

• Peter ist groß (1,88 m), aber Hubert ist noch größer (1,92 m).
• Gestern war das Wetter schön (leicht bewölkt, 24 Grad) und heute wird es noch schöner(sonnig, 27 Grad).

Reflexive verbs

There are three cases of using reflexive verbs… no, not THOSE cases where we struggle with declination of nouns 🙂 We could say there are 3 groups of verbs. We will talk here shortly only about one of the groups, namely the verbs that can ONLY be used „with a self reference“. By the way, English has only 5 of those kind.

German language has more… way more reflexive verbs. One of the examples is sich beeilen. It means to hurry up, and in German language you can’t use it without a self-reference.

Ich beeile… WRONG
Ich beeile meinen Bruder… WRONG
Ich beeile mich… CORRECT
I hurry up.