Nominal Structures of Uralic Languages

Comparatives are formed productively with the suffix -Vbb. Note, that certain types of attrubutive adjectives (e.g. adjectives expressing absolute properties, such as 'blind') do not have a comparative form.

A	kutyá-m	okos-abb/*vak-abb	a	szomszéd	macsaká-já-nál.
the	dog-1SG	clever-COMP/blind-COMP	the	neighbour	cat-POSS-ADE

’My dog is smarter than the neighbour's cat.’

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Many relational and locational adjectives, just as oridinal and partitive modifiers do not have comparative forms.

*utca-i-bb	verekedés,	*öt-öd-ik-ebb	találkozó
street-ATTR-COMP	fighting	five-ORD-PTV-COMP	meeting

’more street-related fight, fifther meeting’

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