Making Comparisons of Inequality in Spanish
Comparisons of inequality show that two things or people are not the same. It doesn’t matter whether you’re using an adjective or an adverb in Spanish; you make the comparison the same way. You create the comparison of inequality with más (more) or menos (less):
Begin with más (menos), and add the adjective or adverb.
Diego es más (menos) hablador (Diego is more [less] talkative)
Diego habla más (menos) (Diego talks more [less])
Add que (than), and complete the rest of the sentence.
Diego es más (menos) hablador que yo. (Diego is more [less] talkative than I.)
Diego habla más (menos) que yo. (Diego talks more [less] than I.)
Spanish GlossaryA word that describes a noun or pronoun, giving it specific attributes or characteristics.
Spanish GlossaryA word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb by expressing time, place, degree, and so on. Many Spanish adverbs end in -mente.
Spanish GlossaryGiving goods or services in return for other goods and services, as opposed to the exchange of money.
Spanish GlossaryAny number used in counting or showing how many.
Spanish GlossaryA form of an adjective or adverb which indicates that one thing has some feature to a greater or lesser extent than the thing it is being compared to. Example: slower, more believable.
Spanish GlossaryA verb tense that expresses an action that should have, could have, or would have happened if the conditions were right.
Spanish GlossaryTo give different forms of a verb according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person. A conjugated verb is a verb that has been changed from its infinitive form to a form that agrees with the subject.
Spanish GlossaryAny of the letters b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, ñ, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z; the double letters ch, ll, and rr may also be considered consonants in Spanish.
Spanish Glossary1. The government agency in charge of collecting taxes or duties imposed on imported and/or exported goods. 2. The common social acts and conventions of a particular area.
Spanish GlossaryTo inform customs officials of any goods you’re carrying that may be taxable.
Spanish GlossaryAny one of the words el, la, los, or las used as adjectives to point out a specific noun.
Spanish GlossaryAn adjective that indicates or points out this, that, these, or those people, places, or things to which a speaker is referring.
Spanish GlossaryReplaces a demonstrative adjective and its noun.
Spanish Glossary1. Small. 2. A word that has been altered with a suffix to indicate a degree of smallness, often ending with -ito or -ita.
Spanish GlossaryA complex vowel sound made by gliding from one vowel sound to the next within the same syllable.
Spanish GlossaryA sentence element that answers the question, “Whom or what is the subject acting upon?” and may refer to people, places, things, or ideas.
Spanish GlossaryReplaces a direct object noun and agrees with it in number and gender.
Spanish GlossaryA tax imposed on imports, exports, or manufactured goods.
Spanish GlossaryVerb tense indicating an action to come.
Spanish GlossaryA verb form that ends in -ing and works like a noun. Spanish gerunds are also derived from verbs.
Spanish GlossaryNegotiations between a seller and a buyer to come to an agreement upon the price of an item for sale. The vendor typically proposes a high price while the buyer suggests a significantly lower price, and, through bartering, the two typically meet somewhere in the middle.
Spanish GlossaryA verb mood that indicates a command or request.
Spanish GlossaryVerb tense indicating a continuing, uncompleted, customary, or simultaneous past action.
Spanish GlossaryAny one of the words un, una, unos, or unas used as adjectives to point out some person, place, thing, or idea, but not a specific one.
Spanish GlossaryAnswers the question “To or for whom is the subject doing something?” and refers only to people or beloved pets.
Spanish GlossaryReplaces an indirect object noun, but is also used when the indirect object noun is mentioned.
Spanish GlossaryThe unconjugated form of a verb — dormir (to sleep), for example.
Spanish GlossaryAn adverb used to ask a question.
Spanish GlossaryA word that replaces a noun and is used to ask a question.
Spanish Glossary1. (noun) In Spanish cultures, a traditional market is where vendors gather to sell their goods. Markets may be open or under a roof, and they offer a less formal shopping environment than typical supermarkets or grocery stores. Prices are usually negotiable. 2. (verb) To advertise and sell an item.
Spanish Glossary1. A characteristic of a verb that indicates the manner in which the action occurs. 2. A characteristic of a person that indicates the overall emotional state of that person.
Spanish GlossaryA number used to indicate order in a particular series.
Spanish GlossaryA form of a verb that expresses a completed action or a time gone by.
Spanish GlossaryA word that goes before the noun that’s possessed in order to express my, your, his, her, its, our, or their.
Spanish GlossaryA word that replaces a noun and its possessive adjective and indicates ownership.
Spanish GlossaryA word that connects nouns to nouns, verbs to verbs, or verbs to nouns/pronouns and shows their relationship to one another.
Spanish GlossaryA pronoun that serves as the object of a preposition and always follows the preposition.
Spanish GlossaryVerb tense expressing a past action or state.
Spanish GlossaryA word that takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
Spanish GlossaryA pronoun used in conjunction with a reflexive verb to express that an action is performed by a subject on itself.
Spanish GlossaryA verb that indicates that the sentence's subject is acting upon itself. Reflexive verbs require reflexive pronouns.
Spanish GlossaryA verb that requires an internal change in the vowel before the -ar, -er, or -ir infinitive ending in all the singular and third-person plural forms of certain tenses.
Spanish GlossaryA pronoun used as a subject.
Spanish GlossaryA grammatical mood indicating uncertainty, desire, supposition, hypothetical and theoretical situations, or impersonal opinions.
Spanish GlossaryA part of a sentence containing a subject and verb that can’t stand on its own but describes something in the larger sentence.
Spanish GlossaryLetters added to the end of a word that change its meaning, give it a different grammatical function, or form a new word.
Spanish GlossaryA form of an adjective or adverb which indicates that one thing has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to. Example: greatest, most honorable
Spanish GlossaryA word or part of a word pronounced with a single sound, usually consisting of a vowel and one or more consonants.
Spanish GlossaryA mark (~) used in Spanish over an “n” to indicate the ny sound.
Spanish GlossaryAny of the letters a, e, i, o, and u. The letter y is never a vowel in the Spanish language, unlike its use in English.
