Template talk:de-adecl
Add topic@Benwing2 (Notifying Matthias Buchmeier, -sche, Jberkel, Mahagaja, Fay Freak, Helrasincke): When attaching -st but no inflectional ending, the resulting word is an adverb. This is very common and (AFAIK?) works for all adjectives that have a superlative form (at least as long as adverbial use makes sense semantically).
Examples: "schleunigst erledigen", "derbst verhauen", "prächtigst amüsiert"
Not only does it make sense in and of itself to add these forms to the declension table (adverbial usage is not really secondary to attributive and predicative use to the best of my knowledge), it would also help create more of these forms. As can be seen above, two of the three words I came up with off the top of my head don't have an entry. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 19:27, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Fytcha Agree this could be added, but I disagree an adjectival sense is possible. All your examples are clearly adverbial. Attributive usage would have an inflectional ending anyway by definition; and I'm not sure these can ever be used predicatively. It feels wrong to say: *Das ist derbst / schleunigst / prächtigst., instead you would use Das ist am derbsten, etc. Helrasincke (talk) 14:34, 8 December 2024 (UTC)