Superlative Adjectives in Hindi
Posted on 25. May, 2012 by Nitin Kumar in Hindi Language
Superlative adjectives are widely used in many languages including Hindi. These are mainly used for comparison of one noun to another.
As they are important in Hindi, let’s take the topic of superlative adjectives in detail. Hence, this post will focus on how to convert an adjective to its superlative form in Hindi.
In Hindi, the superlative adjectives can be made easily. Most of the superlative adjectives can be made by using two rules. However, which rule will apply to which noun, should be known. This is only possible by learning the respective noun by heart.
The two ways to make the superlative adjectives are:
1. Adding “तम” to the adjective
Some of the adjectives require that you add “तम” (Tam) as suffix to the adjective to convert it to superlative. Notice the conversion in the following examples,
a. तीव्र (Tivr – Fast) -> तीव्रतम (Tivrtam – fastest)
b. मधुर (Madhur – Sweet) -> मधुरतम (Madhurtam – Sweetest)
c. सुन्दर (Sundar – Beautiful) -> सुन्दरतम (Sundartam – Most beautiful)
d. निम्न (Nimna – Low) -> निम्नतम (Nimnatam – Lowest)
e. उच्च (Ucch – High) -> उच्चतम (Ucchtam – Highest)
f. अधिक (Adhik – More) -> अधिकतम (Adhiktam – Most)
g. लघु (Laghu – Small) -> लघुतम (Laghutam – Smallest)
2. Adding “सबसे” to the adjective.
Some of the adjectives require that you must add “सबसे” (Sabse – from all) before the adjective to convert it to superlative. Notice the conversion in the following examples,
a. अच्छा (Accha – Fast) -> सबसे अच्छा (Sabse Accha – fastest)
b. ऊँचा (Uncha – High) -> सबसे ऊँचा (Sabse Uncha – Highest)
c. बुरा (Bura – Bad) -> सबसे बुरा (Sabse Bura – Worst)
d. मोटा (Mota – Fat) -> सबसे मोटा (Sabse Mota – Fattest)
e. बड़ा (Bada – Big, Older) -> सबसे बड़ा (Sabse Bada – Biggest, Oldest)
f. पतला (Patla – Thin) -> सबसे पतला (Sabse Patla – Thinnest)
g. लम्बा (Lamba – Long) -> सबसे लम्बा (Sabse Lamba – Longest)
About Nitin Kumar
Nitin Kumar is a native Hindi speaker from New Delhi, India. Professionally, he has got Masters in Robotics and currently works in the field of technical research in hi-tech industry in Germany. His passion for Indian culture and writing in particular, has motivated him to share technical and cultural blogs on various websites. He has been working with Transparent Language since 2010 and has written over 250 blogs on various facet of his motherland, India and his language, Hindi. He is also the Administrator for Hindi Facebook page which has a community of over 330,000 members.