📖LearnModule 3 · Lesson 15 of 30Basic User · CEFR A2, first halfUnit 3 · Agreement in earnest, and comparing
Tan… como, and the top of the class
Module 3 of the free Spanish course (CEFR A2, first half), lesson 15 of 30: Tan… como says as… as: Soy tan alto como mi hermano. On this page: 9 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
tan… como
as… as
TAHN … KOH-moh
el más grande
the biggest
ehl mahs GRAHN-deh
la más pequeña
the smallest (f)
lah mahs peh-KEH-nyah
mejor
better
meh-HOHR
el mejor
the best
ehl meh-HOHR
peor
worse
peh-OHR
mayor
older
mah-YOHR
menor
younger
meh-NOHR
mi hermano mayor
my older brother
mee ehr-MAH-noh mah-YOHR
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
Tan… como says as… as: Soy tan alto como mi hermano. The superlative adds el/la/los/las: el más grande — the biggest; la más pequeña — the smallest.
Y también · And also
Four irregulars worth their fame: bueno becomes mejor (better), malo becomes peor (worse), and for age, grande becomes mayor (older) and pequeño becomes menor (younger) — never más bueno, never más grande for an older brother.
Ojo · Watch out
bueno becomes mejor, never más bueno: este libro es mejor. And an older sibling is mayor, a younger one menor: mi hermano mayor.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with tan… como.
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 15 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.