heißeren

Heißeren is the inflected comparative form of the German adjective heiß, meaning hot. It is used to express that one thing has a higher degree of heat than another and typically appears before a plural noun when the noun is accompanied by a determiner. Examples include die heißeren Tage (the hotter days) and meine heißeren Getränke (my hotter drinks). In the dative plural you would find den heißeren Tagen.

Grammatically, heißeren results from combining heiß with the comparative suffix -er and applying the plural, determiner-led ending -en. With a definite article or determiner in plural (such as die, meine, dieser), the attributive adjective takes the weak ending -en, giving phrases like die heißeren Tage or den heißeren Tagen. Without a determiner, the adjective takes the strong declension, and the form for the plural becomes heißere Tage to express “hotter days” without a specific article.

Usage notes: heißeren is strictly comparative, not superlative. The corresponding superlative is heißesten (the hottest). The form is common in weather reporting, travel writing, and everyday speech whenever a direct comparison of temperature or heat is intended. As with other German adjectives, the exact ending can vary according to case, number, and determiner, but the core function remains: signaling a higher degree of heat relative to another item.