01 · The basic más/menos
Madrid es más grande que Sevilla.
Madrid is bigger than Seville.
Más or menos plus the adjective plus que — this pattern alone covers most comparisons you'll ever need to make.
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Comparison King
Compare people, places and prices — then crank it up to -ísimo — out loud.
Unequal comparison is más/menos + adjective + que: Madrid es más grande que Sevilla. Equal comparison splits by part of speech — tan with adjectives (es tan inteligente como tú), tanto/-a/-os/-as with nouns, agreeing in gender and number (tengo tantos libros como tú, hay tanta gente como antes). Four comparatives are irregular — say mejor, peor, mayor, menor, never más bueno or más malo. For superlatives: el/la más… de for the top of a group (la película más divertida del año) and the -ísimo ending for pure emphasis (facilísimo, cansadísimo).
Below: the comparisons you'll actually say, how the slang for 'cool' changes by country, the errors that flag a textbook learner — and a way to practise it all out loud, no transformation drills, no worksheets.
The warm-up pack
Más, tan, tanto, mejor, -ísimo — five different ways to compare things, and which one fits which sentence.
01 · The basic más/menos
Madrid es más grande que Sevilla.
Madrid is bigger than Seville.
Más or menos plus the adjective plus que — this pattern alone covers most comparisons you'll ever need to make.
02 · Equally so
Ella es tan inteligente como tú.
She's as intelligent as you.
When two things are equal rather than one winning, swap más...que for tan...como. Same idea, different shape.
03 · Equal, but with a noun
Tengo tantos libros como tú.
I have as many books as you.
Tan...como is for adjectives. The moment you're comparing a noun — books, time, people — it becomes tanto, and it agrees in gender and number: tantos, tantas, tanta.
04 · Never say más bueno
Este restaurante es mejor que aquel.
This restaurant is better than that one.
Bueno and malo don't take más — they have their own comparative forms, mejor and peor, and skipping straight to those is what makes you sound natural.
05 · Mayor isn't just "bigger"
Mi hermana mayor vive en Chile.
My older sister lives in Chile.
Mayor and menor are the other irregular pair — for age, not size. Your hermana mayor is older, not literally larger.
06 · The best of the group
Es la película más divertida del año.
It's the funniest movie of the year.
Add el/la/los/las in front and de at the end, and más divertida stops comparing two things and starts crowning a winner out of a whole group.
07 · Youngest in the family
Él es el más joven de la familia.
He's the youngest in the family.
Same superlative pattern as above — el más + adjective + de — this time picking out one person from the whole group.
08 · Turn up the volume
El examen fue facilísimo.
The exam was super easy.
Drop muy, add -ísimo to the end of the adjective, and you get something stronger and more expressive than "very" ever sounds.
09 · Extremely, not just very
Estoy cansadísimo hoy.
I'm extremely tired today.
Same -ísimo move as facilísimo. It's the difference between saying you're tired and really landing how tired you are.
10 · Two comparisons, one sentence
Mi hermano es más alto que yo pero menos fuerte.
My brother is taller than me but less strong.
This is how comparisons actually come out when you talk — stacked, not one at a time. Once each piece is automatic, combining them is easy.
11 · Irregular and superlative, together
Ella es la mejor profesora de la escuela.
She's the best teacher at the school.
Mejor already means "best" here without needing más in front — the irregular and the superlative pattern, working together in one everyday sentence.
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Textbooks teach one word. Locals use several — pick your region's and stay consistent.
| English | Mexico | Argentina | Colombia |
|---|---|---|---|
| cool, great | suave | copado | bacano |
| amazing (the -ísimo version) | chidísimo / padrísimo | buenísimo | bacanísimo / chéverísimo |
| as cool as the other one | tan suave como antes | tan copado como el otro | tan bacano como el primero |
Watch out
The part no drill site can do
Carla
Your grammar teacher for this pack
No flashcards, nothing to transform on paper. In the Comparison King lessons, Carla keeps inviting contrasts — your city against hers, your siblings, this coffee against the last one — and you build the comparisons out loud as you talk. When muy cansado feels flat, she has you crank it to cansadísimo and try two more (buenísimo, grandísimo); then she runs the pairs that trip everyone: mayor for age vs más grande for size, and más de with numbers vs más que in comparisons — one spoken sentence each.
Blank mid-sentence and nothing bad happens — she waits. That's the practice, without unnecessary judgement.
Finish the 6 lessons and Comparison King is yours — earned, not given.
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Quick answers
Mejor: este restaurante es mejor que aquel. Same with peor instead of más malo: su idea es peor que la mía. The four irregulars are mejor, peor, mayor, menor.
Tan goes with adjectives: es tan inteligente como tú. Tanto goes with nouns and agrees with them: tantos libros, tantas amigas, tanta gente.
Que sits between the two things compared: mi hermano es más alto que yo. De marks the group in a superlative: él es el más joven de la familia.
It's the absolute superlative — 'extremely': el examen fue facilísimo, llegamos tardísimo. Local slang plugs straight into it: chidísimo in Mexico, bacanísimo in Colombia.
Mayor is for age and abstract rank: mi hermana mayor vive en Chile. Más grande is physical size: es una ciudad grandísima — and in Mexico you'll hear both: mi hermano el mayor / el más grande de los hermanos.