Language/French/Grammar/Well-Better-Worse

bien 'well', mieux 'better', mal 'badly', pis 'worse'

One adverb in French has special comparative and superlative forms:

• bien

well

• mieux

better

• moins bien

less well

• le mieux

the best

• le moins bien

the least well

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The adverb mal 'badly' has two sets of comparative and superlative forms, one regular and one irregular:

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pis and le pis only occur these days in fixed expressions like:

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