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bessere

Bessere is a form of the German adjective besser, meaning better. It is used when the adjective precedes a noun directly (attributive use) and takes an ending that agrees with gender, number, and case.

In feminine singular nouns in the nominative or accusative, and in neuter singular nouns in these cases,

Bessere commonly appears in everyday German as part of expressing a more favorable option or quality. It

See also

German grammar: adjectives and their endings, comparative forms.

the
attributive
form
is
erkennbare
as
“bessere.”
Examples
include
eine
bessere
Lösung
and
das
bessere
Angebot.
For
masculine
singular
nouns,
the
forms
differ
(ein
besserer
Tag,
den
besseren
Tag).
In
plural,
after
a
definite
article
the
form
is
typically
die
besseren
(as
in
die
besseren
Ergebnisse);
with
no
article,
strong
inflection
yields
phrases
like
bessere
Lösungen.
does
not
stand
as
a
separate
lexeme
in
most
dictionaries;
rather,
it
is
the
inflected
comparative
adjective
adapting
to
the
noun
it
modifies.
In
English,
it
is
generally
translated
as
“better.”