Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2. Adjectives that are used only in the predicate, as angft, feinb, leib, fdjulb: Gr tft mefjr fdjulb ate idj. 3. Frequently participles: 3)er fleifjige SMirger toirb mefjr geadjtet ate feme adjbarn, The industrious citizen is more respected than his neighbors. 72. Descending Comparison. A lower degree is expressed by using the adverbs toemger, minber, am toenigften, am mtn- beften: SBeniger ffage Seute fommen audj burdjg Seben, Less clever people also get through life. 73. Comparison of Adverbs. Like the positive, so the comparative and the superlative of adjectives may also be used adverbially. 1. When used as adverbs, the positive and the comparative are not inflected: 3)er unb lauft fdjnell. 3)ag ‘ipferb Ia'uft fdjneller. 2. Of the three superlative forms only one, the adverbial superlative, can be used adverbially: @te fingt am fdjonften. Note. ? There is also an absolute superlative of the adverb: Sit fingt aufs fdjonfte. NUMERALS 74. Cardinals. The cardinals are: 1 em (g) 13 breijefjn 50 fiinfjtg 2 tfmti 14 bterjefm 60 fedjjtg 3 bret 15 fiinfjefjn 70 fieb(en)jig 4 bier 16 fedjjefjn So adjtjta 5 funf 17 fieb(en)jefjn 90 neunjig 6 fedjg 18 adjtjefm 100 hunbert 7 fieben 19 neunjehn 101 (junbert unb ein3 8 adjt 20 jtoanjig 121 bunbert einunbtoanjig 9 neun 21 einunbjtoanjtg 1000 taufenb 10 jefrn 22 jtoetunbjtoanjtg 1,000,000 eme 9)JUiion 11 elf 30 bretfjig 12 jmolf 40 Oteqig i. Aside from f)unbert and taufenb, when these are used as nouns (bag unbert, bag Jaufenb), only etn is ordinarily inflected. When used as an adjective, it is inflected like the indefinite article (22): @r fyatte nur etn Sluge, He had only one eye. When used without a noun, it is inflected like an adjective: @ t n e r ift f)ier. i i n e g toei…
