LearnModule 3 · Lesson 14 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 3 · Agreement in earnest, and comparing

Más… que — comparing things

Module 3 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 14 of 30: . On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.

The words

Spanish	English	Say it
más… que	more… than	MAHS … keh
menos… que	less… than	MEH-nohs … keh
el caballo es más grande que el ratón	the horse is bigger than the mouse	ehl kah-BAH-yoh ehs mahs GRAHN-deh keh ehl rrah-TOHN
más rápido	faster	mahs RRAH-pee-doh
rápido	fast (m)	RRAH-pee-doh
rápida	fast (f)	RRAH-pee-dah
lento	slow (m)	LEHN-toh
lenta	slow (f)	LEHN-tah

Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.

La regla · The rule

Compare anything with más… que (more… than) and menos… que (less… than): El caballo es más grande que el ratón. La sopa es menos cara que el pescado.

Y también · And also

The adjective still agrees with the FIRST thing: La casa es más grande que el garaje. Muy (very) goes before an adjective; mucho (a lot) goes with a verb or a noun: muy rápido, but corre mucho.

Ojo · Watch out

muy before an adjective, mucho with a verb or a noun: muy grande, but come mucho, mucha comida. Never muy mucho.

Do it now — on paper

Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with más… que.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 14 in Module 3 are the written half of this page.

This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.

Keep these words

Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.

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