roots, by prefixing အ, as အသစ်, new, and by reduplicating the root, as ကောင်းကောင်း, good. Such adjectives are commonly affixed to their nouns; but အများ, from များ, to be many, follows the general rule, as အများသောဆရာ, or ဆရာအများ, many teachers.
The imperfect degree of comparison is sometimes made, by shortening and reduplicating the verbal root, as ချို့ချို့ sweetish, from ချို, to be sweet, ခခ, bitterish, from ခါး, to be bitter; sometimes, by affixing ခပ် to the root reduplicated, as ခပ်ဆိုးဆိုး, rather bad; and sometimes, by shortening the root, and affixing reduplicated chiming increments, as ချို့တို့တို့ sweetish, ငန့်တန့်တန့်, saltish.
The comparative degree is made, by means of the secondary noun အထက်, or အောက်, and a verb, as အိမ်ထက်ကြီးသည်, to be greater than the house, or by a circumlocution of verbs, as သာ၍ကြီးသည်, to exceed in greatness, or be greater.
The superlative degree is made, by prefixing အ, and affixing ဆုံး to the verbal root, as အမြတ်ဆုံး, most excellent; and is joined to nouns, according to the general rule, as အမြတ်ဆုံးသောလူ, or လူအမြတ်ဆုံး, the most excellent man.
