Sportlicheren

Sportlicheren is the comparative form of the German adjective sportlich, meaning more sporty or athletic. It is used to compare the sporty qualities of people, objects, or concepts. In German, adjectives are declined to agree with gender, number and case, so sportlicheren appears in several inflected contexts.

Common contexts for sportlicheren include:

- masculine singular, accusative with an indefinite article: einen sportlicheren Mann

- plural, nominative or accusative after a definite article: die sportlicheren Autos

- plural, dative after a definite article: den sportlicheren Autos

- feminine singular, dative after a definite article: der sportlicheren Frau

These patterns reflect the general rule that the ending -en is used in many inflected forms of the comparative stem sportlich-.

Examples:

- Er ist sportlicher als ich. (comparative without inflection on the article)

- Die sportlicheren Autos kosten mehr. (nominative plural after definite article)

- Ich habe einen sportlicheren Körper als zuvor. (masculine singular accusative with indefinite article)

- Mit der sportlicheren Frau trainieren sie effektiver. (feminine singular dative)

Etymology and usage notes:

- sportlich derives from sport + the adjectives suffix -lich; the comparative is formed with the suffix -er and then declined as an adjective.

- sportlicheren is not a noun; it remains an attributive adjective and requires a determiner or context that defines its case, number, and gender.

In sum, sportlicheren denotes a higher degree of sportiness and appears in various declined forms depending on grammatical context.