ruhigere

Ruhigere is the comparative form of the German adjective ruhig, meaning more quiet or calmer. It is used to compare the quietness of two or more nouns or situations.

Grammatically, ruhigere appears in attributive position directly before a noun and declines like other adjectives under mixed or weak declension, depending on the determiner. Examples include: eine ruhigere Nacht (a calmer night), der ruhigere Mann (the calmer man), die ruhigeren Tage (the calmer days). In plural, the form appears as die ruhigeren Nächte oder die ruhigeren Tage. When used predicatively after a linking verb such as sein, werden, or bleiben, the form ruhiger is used instead of ruhiger or ruhigeres: Die Nacht ist ruhiger.

Common usage notes: ruhigere conveys a relative degree of quietness and is often contrasted with ruhig or am ruhigsten for positive and superlative degrees. It can describe environments, moods, or times, for example, eine ruhige Umgebung becomes eine ruhigere Umgebung in a comparative context, or Die Rekordflut war ruhiger als erwartet, with a different construction for the comparative in predicative position.

Etymology and related forms: ruhigere is formed from ruhig by adding the comparative suffix -er and adapting to the sentence’s grammatical gender, number, and case. Related forms include ruhiger (predicative comparative) and am ruhigsten (superlative).