Aeglasemad

Aeglasemad is an Estonian adjective form meaning "slower" used in the plural. It is the comparative degree of the adjective aeglane ("slow"), combined with a plural nominative ending. As such, aeglasemad describes multiple nouns that have a lower speed or rate compared with others.

Morphologically, the form is built from the stem aeglas- plus the comparative marker -em and the plural ending -ad. Estonian adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, so comparative forms like aeglasemad may take different endings in other cases. The language does not mark grammatical gender.

In use, aeglasemad appears both attributively (before a noun) and predicatively (after a verb). It commonly appears in comparative constructions with kui ("than"): for example, "Need autod on aeglasemad kui need teised" ("These cars are slower than those others"). It can also appear without an explicit comparison when context implies a relative sense, as in descriptions of groups or trends.

Pronunciation can be approximated for non-native speakers as AE-glah-seh-mad. Related forms include the singular comparative aeglasem and other declined cases of the same comparative stem.