italki - All languages have a different roots in pairs 'good-better' and 'bad-worse'. Is it true? I heard abo

Alek

All languages have a different roots in pairs 'good-better' and 'bad-worse'. Is it true?

I heard about one strange thing - pairs of words 'good-better' and 'bad-worse' have a different roots in all languages.

Is it true in your language?

For Russian language it is true, we have 'хорошо-лучше' and 'плохо-хуже'.

Mar 23, 2017 11:59 AM

I just double-checked with Turkish and Indonesian. It's the same as Michael's comment: good - more good / bad - more bad.

March 23, 2017

In Hebrew this doesn't work. Having made a direct translation, we get this: "good - more good"/ "bad - more bad" .

March 23, 2017

Alek

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