nagyobb

Nagyobb is a Hungarian adjective that serves as the comparative form of nagy, meaning big or large. The word is written nagyobb and is used to indicate that one object or attribute is greater in size or degree than another. The comparative is formed with the suffix -obb, which in this case follows the stem nagy and preserves the palatal nature of the word.

In use, nagyobb can modify a noun directly, as in nagyobb ház (a bigger house) or nagyobb méretű épület (a larger-sized building). It can also describe a higher degree of a quality, for example nagyobb élvezet (greater enjoyment) or nagyobb érdeklődés (greater interest). When making a comparison between two items, Hungarian commonly pairs nagyobb with a comparison marker such as mint (than), as in ez a könyv nagyobb, mint az a (this book is bigger than that one). The word also appears in fixed expressions and collocations where a literal size is implied or where the contrastive sense is emphasized.

A related form is the evaluative or emphatic látenség occurs in the form nagyobbik, which means “the bigger one” of two, and kisebbik for “the smaller one.” The standard superlative is legnagyobb (the biggest). In summary, nagyobb is a core comparative used to express greater size or degree, widely employed across everyday Hungarian.