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A children's book has the title "Mein tierisch tolles Bildwörterbuch Deutsch". The word tierisch in the title confuses me a bit.
I would have the book title as "Mein tierisches tolles Bildwörterbuch Deutsch". What is the reason for dropping the "-es"? Is tierisch an adverb or something?
"tierisch" is an adverb in this case and qualifies "tolles". You can write "tierisches" but then it would qualify "Bildwörterbuch". So by writing "tierisch tolles" you mean something like "sehr tolles" - "very great", to keep it simple, and by writing "tierisches tolles", you would mean something like "animalistic and great".
Tierisch acts as a qualifiyer of toll: Not simply amazing, but animalistically (?) so.
