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Comparing using a noun vs comparing using an adjective
You base assumption that "productive" or "produktiv" respectively is a noun in either English or German is faulty. In both languages the form of the sentence you use requires the ...
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Comparing using a noun vs comparing using an adjective
German and English form comparatives (and also superlatives) differently.
English adds -er to short adjectives and uses more for long adjectives.
German always adds -er, it doesn't use mehr to form ...
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Comparing using a noun vs comparing using an adjective
I don't care for a moment, how to build the correct comparative in German. (I'll come to that later.)
How to test, if a word is a noun or an adjective?
This is relatively simple: replace the word in ...
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Are both these German phrases grammatically correct?
The first translation was correct.
Was sind andere Möglichkeiten, um "Wie geht es dir?" zu sagen?
The back-translation to English failed - seems it dropped/ignored the space in "zu ...
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What is the formal name of the "je...desto" construction?
Most German grammars have decided to not give the comparative in constructs like
je ..., desto ...
or
umso ..., umso ..., je ..., umso
and
je, ... je (archaic)
a special term, but rather sort ...
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Are both these German phrases grammatically correct?
"How are you?" translates to "Wie geht es dir?", yes, that's true.
You should, however, note that while "how are you" is somewhat of a greeting in the English-speaking ...
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Use of comparative adjectives and adverbs
The first means: "Which boy is strongest?" Superlatives used as predicative adjectives are always formed like this, with "am" and then the ending -en. Groß, größer, am größten. ...
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