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  2. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The usual degrees of comparison are the positive, which simply denotes a property (as with the English words big and fully); the comparative, which indicates greater degree (as bigger and more fully); and the superlative, which indicates greatest degree (as biggest and most fully). [2] Some languages have forms indicating a very large degree of ...

  3. Comparative - Wikipedia

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    In general linguistics, the comparative is a syntactic construction that serves to express a comparison between two (or more) entities or groups of entities in quality or degree - see also comparison (grammar) for an overview of comparison, as well as positive and superlative degrees of comparison.

  4. Arabic grammar - Wikipedia

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    The earliest schools were different not only in some of their views on grammatical disputes, but also their emphasis. The school of Kufa excelled in Arabic poetry and exegesis of the Qur'an, in addition to Islamic law and Arab genealogy. The more rationalist school of Basra, on the other hand, focused more on the formal study of grammar.

  5. Talk:Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Of course there are - the vast majority of languages don't have anything like the 'degrees of comparison' found primarily in European languages. In fact, degrees of comparisons are not degrees at all (regardless of what some school grammar might say). They are simply different kinds of inflection that are used in different syntactic contexts.

  6. Comparison - Wikipedia

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    Comparison or comparing is the act of evaluating two or more things by determining the relevant, comparable characteristics of each thing, and then determining which characteristics of each are similar to the other, which are different, and to what degree. Where characteristics are different, the differences may then be evaluated to determine ...

  7. Comparative case - Wikipedia

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    колла kol- la fish- COMP колла kol- la fish-COMP 'like fish' Mari also uses the comparative case in regards to languages, when denoting the language a person is speaking, writing, or hearing. Then, however, the accentuation varies slightly from the standard case. Usually, the suffix is not stressed. When it is used with languages, however, it is stressed. An example of the ...

  8. Comparative linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness.. Genetic relatedness implies a common origin or proto-language and comparative linguistics aims to construct language families, to reconstruct proto-languages and specify the changes that have resulted in the documented languages.

  9. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    But the word bahasa (a loanword from Sanskrit Bhāṣā) only means "language." For example, French language is translated as bahasa Prancis, and the same applies to other languages, such as bahasa Inggris (English), bahasa Jepang (Japanese), bahasa Arab (Arabic), bahasa Italia (Italian), and so on.