Now, we're going to talk about how to form comparatives in Turkish so phrases like
"A faster car or "a more beautiful car." Let's look at how we'll form them, let's say
we want to say "the car Is fast." We would start with the Turkish word for car, "araba"
and
then the adjective meaning fast, "hızlı"
"the car is fast"
Let's say we want to say "the car is faster." What we'ere going to do
is we're going to add the Turkish word meaning more, "daha"
So "the car is fast": araba daha hızlı
the car is more fast, the car is faster
Another example, we want to say "the car is more beautiful"
We would "araba daha..." more "güzel"
beautiful
so "the car Is faster, the car is beautiful" you're using "daha"
Let's say we want to specify what the car Is more beautiful than
The element we're comparing
the car to is going to be put Into the ablative case so for example let's say
we want to say "the car Is more beautiful than the train"
Start with "araba"
then we use the Turkish word for "train" in the ablative case so "tren"
"trenden" because it's ablative
"Araba trenden daha güzel"
so "the care is more beautiful than..." in the ablative " the train"
We can also use this construction with pronouns or with proper nouns like for example if we want to say
"Istanbul Is more crowded Than New York"
Start With "Istanbul"
"New York," what case are we gonna put it in? Operative like here, "New York'tan"
"daha": more and then in the word for the adjective meaning crowded, "kalabalık"
"Istanbul New York'tan daha kalabalık": Istanbul is more crowded than New York
We can, also use "daha" the Turkish word for more to form comparatives with
adjectives that are being used as adverbs. Let me Show you
For example, if we want to say "you know Russian better than I do"
We would start with the word for you, "sen" you singular, informal
"sen benden" so "than me"
"daha": more
"iyi": Turkish word meaning good so "daha iyi" means better
"Rusça": Turkish word for the Russian language
and
then finally the verb "biliyorsun": you know
"Sen benden daha iyi Rusça biliyorsun"
You
know
Russian, the Russian language
more well, better
than (in the ablative)
I do
We can also use "daha" to form comparatives with the Turkish words "az"
meaning "a little" or "a little bit" and
"Çok"
Meaning "much" or "a lot" so for example if we want to say "you know less
Russian than I do"
We can "Sen benden daha az Rusça biliyorsun"
You know
less: "daha az"
Russian than I do
We can do exactly the same thing with "çok" so
plug it in
"Sen benden daha çok Rusça biliyorsun": You know more, "daha çok" Russian than I do