-est

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , related to comparative. Cognate of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Suffix

 * longest, biggest, fastest
 * longest, biggest, fastest

Usage notes

 * See for notes on the usage of this suffix to form superlatives.


 * Occasionally, the -est suffix is added to a verbal adjective as a substitute for most. An example is.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ամենա-, -գույն
 * Basque: -en
 * Breton:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: nej-
 * Danish: -est
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: -ster, -ste, am ...-sten
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Khmer: ជាងគេ
 * Korean:, , 최(最)-
 * Lao: ທີ່ສຸດ
 * Latvian: -ākais, -ākā
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian: хамгын
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: -est,
 * Nynorsk: -ast, mest
 * Polish:, najbardziej (before the adjective or adverb)
 * Portuguese: used with definite article
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,  , -е́йший, -а́йший
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: нај
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: naj-
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (1),  (before the adjective or adverb) (1)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: -af
 * Yoruba: -olo

Etymology 2
From, from , ultimately from , from. The -t was by transfer from inverted order where followed the verb, which also occurred in most dialects of Middle Dutch and Middle High German (compare modern 🇨🇬).

Suffix

 * 1)   (if thou is the subject; not used with you)
 * goest, makest, wentest, madest

Translations

 * Czech: -eš, -íš, -áš
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ;  ;
 * German: -st
 * Hungarian: -sz, ,
 * Irish: -air, -ir , -aír , -ír
 * Italian:
 * Latin: -as, -es, -is, -s
 * Polish: -esz, -isz, -ysz, -asz
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: -i, -ezi , -ești
 * Russian: -ешь, -ёшь, -ишь, -ашь
 * Spanish: ,

Etymology
From.

Usage notes

 * Variants:

Etymology
From,.