The positive, comparative, and superlative in German
Channel: The German Professor
Date: 2015-04-03

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This closed captioned, high definition video examines the positive, comparative, and superlative forms of German adjectives and adverbs. Looking first at the positive, comparative, and superlative forms in English in order to quickly develop background knowledge of the topic, the video then moves over to an examination of these forms in German. Finally, the video presents some common exceptions involving umlauted and irregular forms.

00:13 Presentation outline
00:39 The positive, comparative, and superlative in English
02:21 The comparative in German: Regular forms
05:23 The superlative in German: Regular forms
07:38 Irregular and umlauted forms