| guot, good, | beȥȥer, beȥȥest, beste ([§ 23]). |
| übel, bad, | wirser, wirsest, wir(se)ste. |
| lützel, little, | minner, minre ([§ 9, 3]), minnest, min(ne)ste. |
| michel, great, | mērer, mēr(r)e, meiste. |
[§ 59.] The following adjectives are defective:—
| ērer, ērre, ërre, former, | ērest, ērste, first. |
| hinder, hinder, | hinderste, hindmost. |
| ober, upper, | oberste, uppermost. |
| leȥȥeste, leste ([§ 23]), last. | |
| vorder, former, | vorderste, foremost. |
C. Formation of Adverbs from Adjectives.
[§ 60.] [1.] By adding -e (= OHG. -o) to the adjective when this does not already end in -e, as ëben, even, hōch, high, lanc, long: adv. ëbene, hōhe, lange; edele (OHG. edili), noble, übel (OHG. ubil), evil: adv. edele (OHG. edilo), übele (OHG. ubilo).
[2.] Dissyllabic adjectives ending in -e and containing a mutated stem-vowel change it to the corresponding unmutated vowel, when used as adverbs, as schœne (OHG. scōni), beautiful, herte, hard, senfte, soft, süeȥe, sweet, swære, heavy: adv. schōne, harte, sanfte, suoȥe, swāre.
[3.] By adding -līche or -līchen to the adjective, as ganz, whole, vlīȥec, diligent: adv. ganzlīche(n), vlīȥeclīche(n).
[4.] The comparative and superlative degrees of adverbs are the same as the corresponding uninflected forms of the adjectives without umlaut:—
| Adjective | lanc, long | lenger | lengest. |
| Adverb | lange | langer (OHG. langōr) | langest (OHG. langōst). |
[§ 61.] The following are irregular:—