Learn English Grammar: Superlative Adjectives

Doo-doo-doo-doo.

Doo-doo-doo-doo.

Today I'm going to teach you about something that's super: Superlatives.

Danas ću vas naučiti o nečemu što je super: superlativ.

Are you a bit confused about superlatives?

Jeste li pomalo zbunjeni zbog superlativa?

Don't worry, I'm here to teach you.

Ne brinite, ovdje sam da vas naučim.

Superlatives.

superlativi

Now, understand I'm teaching you with adjectives, not adverbs, because that's a whole other lesson.

Danas vas podučavam o pridjevima, a ne prilozima, jer to je potpuno druga lekcija.

So, superlatives as adjectives - they're the best.

Dakle, superlativi kao pridjevi - oni su najbolji.

We don't say: "They're the goodest" for a reason.

S razlogom ne kažemo: „Oni su najbolji”.

What we have to understand about superlatives are: There can be only one superlative.

Ono što moramo shvatiti o superlativima je da postoji samo jedan superlativ.

If you're looking at another grammar called comparative, there have to be two things to compare.

Kada govorimo o komparativu moraju postojati dvije stvari za usporedbu.

For example, red and blue; purple and yellow.

Na primjer, crveno i plavo; ljubičasto i žuto.

But with superlatives there's only one thing.

Ali kad govorimo o superlativu postoji samo jedna stvar.

And what we're telling you is that this one is number one.

A ono što vam kažemo je da je ovaj broj jedan.

This one is the best.

Ovaj je najbolji.

There's no other competition for this adjective.

Ovaj pridjev nema konkurencije

So, the way that we make superlatives, you're going to have two choices.

Dakle postoje dva načina kako gradimo superlative.

You can either put: "the" plus your adjective plus "-est", or you can put: "the" plus "most"

Možete staviti ili "the" plus pridjev plus -est ili možete staviti "the" plus "most"

plus your adjective.

plus pridjev

So, how do you know which adjective will get "est" and which one will get "the most"?

Dakle, kako ćete znati koji će pridjev dobiti „est”, a koji će dobiti „the most”?

I'll tell you.

Pa ja ću vam reći.

We get to play a game.

Igrat' ćemo igru.

We get to do something very fun called counting syllables.

Raditi ćemo nešto vrlo zabavno što se zove brojanje slogova.

First of all, we have to understand what a syllable is.

Prije svega, moramo shvatiti što je to slog .

A syllable is a vowel sound, or how long the word is.

Slog je zvučni samoglasnik ili koliko je riječ duga.

So, when we count syllables we have to be very careful, and we're only going to count

Dakle, kad brojimo slogove, moramo biti vrlo pažljivi, i samo ćemo računati

the vowel sounds of the words; not the vowels because this gets confusing.

zvučne samoglasnike u riječi ne sve samoglasnike jer to postaje zbunjujuće.

Once we have counted the vowel sounds, we use "est" or "the most".

Nakon što smo izbrojili zvučne samoglasnike, koristimo ili "est" ili "the most".

So let's do some simple examples and I'll tell you our game.

Dakle hajde da napravimo neke jednostavne primjere i reći ću vam našu igru.

The first one: How many syllables or how many verb sounds...?

Prvo: Koliko slogova ili zvučnih samoglasnika

Or vowel sounds do we have in the word "beautiful"?

imamo u riječi "beautiful"?

If we simply count the vowels, we've got one, two, three, four...

Ako jednostavno brojimo samoglasnike imamo jedan,dva,tri,četiri, pe...

Oo, we've got five vowels, but in English, "beautiful" is not five syllables, it's only

Oo, dobili smo pet samoglasnika, ali u engleskom, „beautiful” nije pet slogove, to je samo

three because if you have two or three vowels together, they're only going to make one vowel

tri, jer ako imate dva ili tri samoglasnika, oni će samo napraviti jedan

sound.

zvučni samoglasnik

So, in English, the word "beautiful" is only three syllables.

Dakle, u engleskom jeziku, riječ "beautiful" ima samo tri sloga.

"Beau-ti-ful".

"Bju-t-ful"(lijep)

Okay?

Jel' točno?

If we look at this word: "gentle", we don't say: "gentl-e", but because it's "le" together,

Ako pogledamo ovu riječ: "gentle", ne kažemo: "gentl-e", zato što je "le" zajedno,

this is going to make another syllable sound, so we say: "gentle".

ovo će biti drugi zvučni samoglasnik tako da kažemo "gentle"(nježan)

This one is two syllables, this one is three.

ovo su dva sloga,ovo su tri

What about this one?

Što je s ovim?

First of all, count the vowels.

Prije svega, brojite samoglasnike.

How many vowels are there?

Koliko imamo samoglasnika?

One, two.

jedan, dva

Because the vowels are separated with consonants, the vowels are not together, we can actually

Budući da su samoglasnici odvojeni suglasnikom, samoglasnici nisu zajedno, zapravo možemo

count these as two: "na-rrow".

brojati ovaj kao dva:"na-rrow".(uzak)

Two syllables.

dva sloga

We have this word: "busy".

Sada imamo riječ "busy"(zauzet).

Bzz, busy bee.

Bzz,bee

"Busy", again, one syllable...

"Busy",ponovo,jedan slog

Sorry, one vowel sound, one vowel sound is two.

Oprostite,jedan zvučni samoglasnik i jedan zvučni samoglasnik su dva

"Hungry"(gladan),jedan i jedan su dva.

"Hungry", one and one, this is two.

This one's easy, there's only one vowel, there's only one vowel sound, so it's going to be

Ovo je lako, postoji samo jedan samoglasnik, postoji samo jedan zvučni samoglasnik, pa će to biti jedan slog

one syllable.

"Happy"(sretan)

"Happy", two vowels, two syllables.

dva samoglasnika ,dva sloga

You understand?

Razumijete?

Try and do these ones.

Pokušajte i ove

Now, be careful, in English if we have an "e" at the end of the word, we don't say it.

Budite oprezni, na engleskom, "e" na kraju riječi ne izgovaramo .

So we don't say: "blu-e", we just say: "blue".

Tako da ne kažemo "blu-e", samo kažemo "blu" (plavo)

So in this, how many syllables are there?

Dakle u ovom koliko slogova imamo?

How many vowel sounds?

Koliko zvučnig samoglasnika?

Two?

Dva?

One.

Jedan

So we just say: "blue", the "e" is silent.

Pošto kažemo "blu", "e" je nenaglašeno.

Okay?

U redu?

My favourite colour is two syllables: "pur-ple".

Moja omiljena boja ima dva sloga "pur-ple" (ljubičasto)

Again, I told you if it ends in "le" we're going to actually put another syllable here.

da ponovimo, rekla sam vam ako je na kraju "le" pišemo još jedan slog.

This is an exception to our vowel-counting rule.

ovo je iznimka od pravila brojanje samoglasnika

So we say: "purple".

tako da kažemo "purpl"(ljubičasto)

"Good", how many syllables?

"Good"(dobar) koliko slogova?

"Good" has two vowels together, but it only makes one sound.

"Good" ima dva samoglasnika zajedno ali oni čine jedan

"Bad" has one.

"Bad" (loš) ima jedan

What about this one?

Što je s ovim?

"Lar..."

"Lar..."

We don't say in English: "larg-e", we say: "large".

U engleskom jeziku ne kažemo "larg-e" nego "larg"(velik)

So, again, because the "e" is silent this only has one syllable.

Dakle, ponovo, pošto je "e" nenaglašeno imamo samo jedan slog.

And a lot of people get confused, but there's only one.

Mnogo ljudi se zbuni,Ali samo jedan je slog

And this one, easy: "big".

i ovaj je jednostavan "big"(velik)

So, if you look at our words, the very first thing that we're going to do is we're going

Dakle, ako pogledate ove riječi, prva stvar koju ćemo učiniti jest da

to count the syllables, we're going to count the vowel sounds.

brojimo slogove, da brojimo zvučne samoglasnike

Three, two, one.

tri, dva, jedan.Sada...

Now, this is how we have to figure out: When do we use "est" and when do we use "the most"?

ovo moramo shvatiti:Kada koristimo "est" i kada koristimo "the most"?

This part is easy.

Ovaj dio je jednostavan.

If your word is small...

Ako su riječ mala

So if your word has one syllable, it's always going to be "est".

Odnosno ako riječ ima jedan slog uvijek ide sa "est"

So, we say: "The bluest".

kažemo "The bluest"

"What?

That's very strange.

"Šta" ?Ovo je vrlo neobično.

Ronnie, how can something be bluest?"

Ronnie, kako nešto može biti "najplavlje"

Well, colour is an adjective, so you can say: "Wow, that's the bluest sky I've ever seen

Pa, riječ boja je pridjev, tako da se može reći: „Wow, to je najmodrije nebo koje sam ikad vidio

in my life.

u životu.

It's beautiful."

Prekrasno je".

We can use colours with this because colours are adjectives.

Možemo koristiti riječ boje ovako jer su boje pridjevi.

So, it might sound weird for you at first, but it's completely normal, just like me.

Dakle,na početku to vam može čudno zvučati , ali to je sasvim normalno, baš kao ja.

If your word is small and it has one syllable, you're going to use "est".

Ako je riječ mala i ima jedan slog, upotrijebit ćete "est".

If your word has more than one syllable, then you're going to use "the most".

Ako vaša riječ ima više nego jedan slog, onda ćete koristiti "the most".

So, one, one, one, one, one - we'd put "est"; two, three, two, two, two, two, one - we would

Dakle, jedan, jedan, jedan, jedan jedan - stavit ćemo "est"; dva, tri, dva, dva, dva, dva, jedan - tada ćemo

put "the most".

stavili "the most"

Dakle, "beautiful" (lijepa) bi postala: "the most beautiful",(najljepša), jer ima tri. U redu?

So, "beautiful" would become: "the most beautiful", because it has three.

Okay?

With everything in English, we have some exceptions, and exceptions make things a little bit more

Kao i sa svime u engleskom jeziku, imamo neke iznimke, a iznimke čine stvari malo više

difficult to understand.

teže za razumjeti

As a basic rule, if you have one syllable, we add "est"; if we have more than one syllable,

Kao osnovno pravilo, ako imate jedan slog, dodamo "est"; ako imamo više od jednog sloga,

we're going to put "the most"; but then we get these crazy words that end in a "y".

mi ćemo staviti "the most"; ali onda imamo ove lude riječi koje završavaju "y".

So: "hungry", "busy", and "happy", these all have two syllables but it doesn't matter,

Dakle "hungry"(gladan) "busy" (zauzet) i "happy"(sretan), svi imaju dva sloga, ali to ne smeta,

because if you have your adjectives that ends in a "y", we think: "Okay, well, it's more

jer, ako imate pridjeve koji završavaju s "y", mislimo: "U redu, dobro, to je više

than one, we use 'the most'", oh no, not in English grammar.

od jednog, mi koristimo "the most", oo ne, ne u engleskoj gramatici.

If it...

ako je....

If your adjective ends in a "y", we always change it to "iest".

Ako vaš pridjev završi s "y", uvijek ga promijenimo u "iest".

We never use "most" with "y".

Nikada ne koristimo "most" sa "y"

We can only change the "y" to "i" and add "est".

Možemo samo promijeniti „y” u „i” i dodati „est”.

So: "busy", even though it's two syllables, we don't say: "the most busy", we actually

Dakle: "busy" , iako su to dva sloga, ne kažemo:"the most busy" , mi zapravo

have to say: "the busiest", and we always need to put "the".

moramo reći:"the busiest"(najzauzetiji) , i uvijek moramo staviti "the".

Okay?

U redu?

"Hungry", because it ends in a "y", we're going to say: "the hungriest".

"Hungry", jer završava "y", kažemo: "the hungriest"(najgladniji).

I'm the hungriest teacher on the planet.

Ja sam najgladnija učiteljica na planeti.

"Happy", again, because it ends in a "y", we can't say: "more happy".

"Happy"(sretan), opet, jer završava "y", ne možemo reći: "more happy".

We're going to say: "iest", "happiest".

Reći ćemo:"iest" , "happiest"(najsretniji)

Are there any ones that end in a "y" here?

"happiest"(najsretniji). Postoje li one koje ovdje završavaju sa "y"?

No.

Ne.

So, when we do this, the first thing that I would do, even before I count the syllables,

Dakle, kad ovo radimo, prva stvar koju bih učinila, čak i prije nego što računam slogove,

is I would look for any of my adjectives that end in a "y".

jest da tražim bilo koji od mojih pridjeva koji završavaju u "y".

As soon as they end in a "y", it's always "iest".

Čim završavaju s "y", to je uvijek "iest".

Those ones are easy.

Oni su jednostavni.

Now, as you know, everything in English is crazy and people like to talk about things,

Kao što znate, sve na engleskom jeziku je ludo i ljudi vole govoriti o stvarima

and sometimes rules are a little bit foggy which means sometimes they don't make sense.

a ponekad su pravila malo maglovita, što znači ponekad nemaju smisla.

So, there's another exception to the one-syllable or more-than-one-syllable rule, and it is

Postoji još jedna iznimka od pravila s jednim slogom ili više od jednog sloga, a to su

adjectives that end in: "er", "le", "or", or "ow".

pridjevi koji završavaju: "er", "le", "or" ili "ow".

For example: "gentle" ends in "le", "narrow" ends in "ow".

Na primjer: "gentle"( nježan) završava sa "le" a "narrow"(uzak) završava na "ow".

Because these two end with these endings, we're going to make it "est".

Budući da ta dva završavaju s ovim završecima, mi ćemo dodati "est" na kraju.

Now, if you said: "the most gentle", nothing happens because people debate this.

Sada, ako kažete: "the most gentle", ništa se ne događa jer ljudi raspravljaju o tome.

People say: "Do we say: 'the most gentle', or do we say: 'the gentlest'?"

Ljudi kažu: "Hoćemo li reći:"the most gentle", ili ćemo reći:" the gentlest "?

A lot of people, it's a grey area, which means that grammar people fight over it.

Puno ljudi, je u sivoj zoni, što znači da se gramatičari bore protiv toga.

Don't fight; choose which one you like the most.

Nemojte se boriti; odaberite ako vam se više sviđa " the most".

But this is a rule that sometimes-not always-we follow.

Ali ovo je pravilo koje ponekad - ne uvijek - slijedimo.

So: "gentle" will become: "the gentlest".

Dakle: "gentle" će postati: "the gentlest"

Again, if you said: "more gentle"...

Opet, ako ako kažete: "more gentle" ...

You might hear people say: "more gentle", and hey, that's fine; they've chosen rule

Možete čuti ljude da kažu: "more gentle", i hej, to je u redu; odabrali su pravilo

number two.

broj dva.

So we say: "the gentlest".

Dakle, kažemo: "the gentlest".

"Narrow", because it ends in an "ow", we would say: "the narrowest".

Narrow", jer završava s "ow", rekli bismo: "the narrowest".

These are the exceptions to our two-vowel sound rule.

To su iznimke našeg pravila "dva samoglasnika".

"Sad", what do you guys think?

"Sad" (tužan), što mislite?

"Sad" has one syllable, so we're going to add "est", so I would say: "That is the saddest

"Sad" ima jedan slog, pa ćemo dodati "est", tako da bih rekao: "To je najtužniji

dog I've ever seen."

pas koji sam ikad vidio"

And this is another thing that's confusing: Sometimes we make the consonant double, sometimes

I ovo je još jedna stvar koja je zbunjujuća: ponekad stavljamo dvostruke suglasnike

we don't.

ponekad ne

We're not doing spelling, so let's worry about that in a whole new lesson.

Ne radimo sricanje, pa ćemo se brinuti o tome u novoj lekciji.

"Happy", because it ends in a "y", we put: "the happiest".

"Happy" (sretan)pošto završava na "y" pišemo "the happiest" (najsretniji)

Okay?

U redu?

"Purple", what do you guys think about "purple"?

"Purple"(ljubičasta) šta mislite o "purple"

Because "purple" ends in "le", we're going to say: "the purplest".

Budući da "purple" završava u "le", reći ćemo: "the purplest" ( najljubičastija).

Okay, if you look down here, we have two more exceptions.

U redu, ako pogledate ovdje dole, imamo još dvije iznimke.

The first one is "good" will change to: "the best".

Prva je "good" (dobar) će se promijeniti u "the best" (najbolji).

We don't say: "goodest".

Ne kažemo:" goodest".

That even sounds funny.

To čak zvuči smiješno.

And look it, look it, look it: I didn't write: "They're the goodest", I wrote: "They're the

I pogledajte, pogledajte, pogledajte: nisam napisala: "They're the goodest", napisala sam: "They're the

best".

best".(Oni su najbolji)

So, "good" and "bad" are exceptions.

Dakle "good"(dobar) i "bad" (loš) su iznimke.

These guys are the rebels.

Ovi momci su buntovnici.

We're like: "We're not even going to do this or this; we're going to have our own category

Mi smo poput: "Nećemo biti niti ovdje niti ondje, imat ćemo našu vlastitu kategoriju

and 'far' is coming with us, because we're special".

i "far"(daleko) ide sa nama, jer mi smo posebni"

"Good" will always say: "the best".

"Good" (dobar) će uvijek reći:"the best" (najbolji)

Do you guys know a singer called Tina Turner?

Znate li li pjevačicu Tina Turner?

Really old.

stvarno stara

"Simply the best..."

"Jednostavno najbolja..."

She's using superlatives - she's the best.

Ona koristi superlative - " she's the best" (ona je najbolja).

"Bad", we don't say - one syllable: "the baddest".

"Bad"(loš), ne kažemo - jedan slog: "the baddest".

No.

ne

We have to say: "the worst".

Moramo reći:"the worst" (najgori)

So I can say: "Wow, that was the worst song Ronnie has ever sang.

Tako mogu reći: "Wow, to je bila najgora pjesma koju je Ronnie ikada pjevala.

She really needs to take singing lessons."

Ona stvarno treba uzeti satove pjevanja.”

This word: "large", "large", as I told you, the "e" is silent, it has one syllable, so

Ova riječ: "large" (velik), "large", kao što sam vam rekla, "e" je nenaglašeno, ima jedan slog, pa

you're going to use what?

ćete koristiti ono što?

Would you use A or B?

Hoćete li koristiti A ili B?

One syllable, would you use: "the largest" or do you think we say: "the most large"?

Jedan slog, biste li koristili: "the largest" ili da kažemo: "the most large"?

The answer is "largest" because there's one syllable, we would say: "Wow, that is the

Odgovor je "largest"(najveći) jer postoji jedan slog, rekli bismo: "Wow,that is the

largest pizza I've ever eaten."

largest pizza I've ever eaten."(Vau, to je najveća pizza koju sam ikad vidio)

And "big", again, one syllable, we would say: "the biggest".

I "big" (velik), ponovo,jedan slog, reći ćemo:"the biggest" (najveći)

So, the other exception is "far".

Dakle, druga iznimka je "far"(daleko). U redu?

Okay?

And this is one...

I ovo je jedan ...

"Far" is just like: "Do you know what, 'good' and 'bad'?

"Far" je baš kao: "Znaš li što,'good'i 'bad'?

I'm not even playing your game.

Čak i ne igram vašu igru.

I'm going to do something completely crazy and I'm going to give you two choices."

Učinit ću nešto posve ludo i dat ću vam dva izbora."

You can say: "the farthest" or you can say: "the furthest".

Možete reći: "the farthest(najudaljeniji) ili možete reći:"the furthest" (najudaljeniji).

Both of these are the same, but the only difference is we just put a "th".

Oba su iste, ali jedina razlika je samo što smo stavili "th".

So it's not that crazy, but it's just the spelling is different.

Dakle, nije to ludo, samo je sricanje drugačije.

So, "far", you can say: "the farthest".

Dakle, "far", možeš reći: "the fathest".

It's whatever you feel more comfortable with.

U pitanju je samo što ti se više sviđa.

Okay?

U redu?

So if you want to use "furthest", go ahead; if you want to say "farthest", awesome.

Dakle, ako želite upotrijebiti "furthest",samo naprijed; ako želite reći "farthest", super

The only difference is the spelling of the word, which is a big difference.

Jedina razlika je sricanje riječi, što je velika razlika.

So, the next time someone asks you or you have a test about superlatives, what you're

Sljedeći put kad vas netko pita ili imate testiranje o superlativu, ono što jeste

going to do first of all is you're going to pay special attention to the exceptions of

prije svega ćete posvetiti posebnu pozornost na iznimke

our rules in English.

naših pravila u engleskom jeziku.

The "y" always changes to an "iest".

"Y" se uvijek mijenja u "iest".

Doesn't matter how many syllables.

Nije važno koliko ima slogova.

Rule number two: If you want to remember it like that, that's easy, but it's not all the time.

Pravilo broj dva:Ako želite da zapamtite, to je lako, ali nije uvijek tako.

I definitivno: "good", "bad" i "far", oni se nikad neće promijeniti; to je tako 100%

And definitely: "good", "bad", and "far", these ones will never change; these are 100%,

you cannot change them to anything else.

ne možete ih mijenjati nikako drugačije.

"The badderest" doesn't work.

"The badderest" je neispravno.

So, the first thing that you're going to do with your list of adjectives is you're going

Prva stvar koju ćete učiniti s vašim popisom pridjeva jest da

to look for your exceptions.

tražite iznimke.

The second thing you're going to do, where the fun begins, is you're going to count the syllables.

Druga stvar koju ćete učiniti, gdje počinje zabava, je da brojite slogove.

You're going to count the vowel sounds.

Brojati ćete zvučne samoglasnike.

Be careful with silent e's.

Pazite na bezvučno "e"

After that, we decide: If it's a one-syllable word, the word is small, you're going to put

Nakon toga odlučujemo: Ako je riječ o jednosložnoj riječi, riječ je mala, stavit ćete

"the" with the adjective and "est"; if the word is more than one syllable, you're going

"the" pa pridjev sa "est" na kraju; ako riječ ima više nego jedan slog, tada ćete

to put: "the most" plus your original adjective.

staviti "the most" plus originalni pridjev

So, be careful because sometimes I hear or I see this: "Oh my god, that person was the

Dakle, budite oprezni jer ponekad čujem ili vidim ovo: "O moj Bože, ta je osoba bila

most beautifullest person I have ever seen."

'most beautifullest'osoba koju sam ikada vidio"

Well, guess what, ladies and gentlemen?

Pa, pogodite što, dame i gospodo?

You can't have both.

Ne možete koristiti oba načina.

You can only have one.

Možete koristiti samo jedan.

You can't say: "the most beautifullest".

Ne možete reći: "the most beautifullest"

It's difficult to say.

To je i teško reći.

So, be careful: You can never put these two together; you can only use A or B. You can

Pa, budite oprezni: nikada ne možete staviti ova dva zajedno; možete koristiti samo A ili B. Ne možete

never say: "the most beautifullest".

nikada reći: "the most beautifullest".

"The most farthest", never.

"The most farthest", nikada.

"The most biggest", it's wrong.

"The most biggest", je pogrešno.

You will hear people say this; maybe children will say or people will say it to be funny,

Čut ćete kako ljudi kažu; možda djeca će reći ili će ljudi reći da je to smiješno,

but this - be careful, it's something that I see a lot and it's a big mistake.

ali ovo - budite oprezni, to je nešto što vidim puno i to je velika pogreška.

When you're speaking, enjoy your superlatives, you're doing the best job ever.

Kada govorite, uživate u superlativima, radite najbolji posao ikad.

And I am gone.

I odoh ja.