-est
Pronunciation Suffix
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Pronunciation Suffix
- Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs.
- longest, biggest, fastest
- -most
- French: plus (before the adjective, after the definite article)
- German: -ster, -ste, am ...-sten (adverbs)
- Portuguese: mais used with definite article
- Russian: наи-
- Spanish: (before the adjective or adverb, after the definite article) más
- (archaic, dialectal) Used to form the second-person singular present tense and past tense of verbs. (if thou is the subject; not used with you)
- goest, makest, wentest, madest
- French: -es (for regular -er verbs); -is (for regular -ir verb); -s (for most -re verbs)
- German: -st
- Italian: -i (for regular -are and -ere verbs and for those -ire verbs that don't take -isc-)
- Portuguese: -as (1st conjugation), -es (2nd and 3rd conjugation)
- Russian: -ешь
- Spanish: -as, -es
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