ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs, similes, adjectives that act as adverbs qualifying adjectives. Forming the comparative and superlative of the adjective is similar in both languages in terms of the endings used, but the regular spelling changes that apply when pluralising nouns and inflecting adjectives by adding -e apply too when forming the comparative. When comparative forms with their -er ending stand in front of a noun, they are subject to the usual rules governing the inflection of adjectives. The superlative of the adverb is formed by adding -ste to the root form and putting die before it. Similes of the sort 'as white as snow' exist in Afrikaans too. In practice polysyllabic adjectives ending in -e, a large number of which are derived from verbs, usually form their comparative and superlative with meer and mees.
