Sobre superlativo absoluto del adverbio

Question

tarde.....tardísimo

lejos..... lejísimos

but why

cerca..... cerquísimA?

Why not end with O?

Answer 1

This from SD

Irregular Superlatives Below you will find a chart of the most common irregular adjectives when it comes to the ísimo/a superlatives.

Adjective Superlative

cómico funny comiquísimo hilarious

blanco white blanquísimo bright white

fresco fresh fresquísimo super fresh

largo long larguísimo very long

amargo bitter amarguísimo really bitter

antiguo old antiquísimo very old

agradable nice agradablísimo super nice

feliz happy felicísimo extremely happy

caliente hot calentísimo really hot

Also adjectives which end in -ble tend to change to -bil- in the base before adding -ísimo.

agradable ? agradabilísimo

amable ? amabilísimo

notable ? notabilísimo

miserable ? misirabilísimo

Many qualitative adjectives that have an /r/ in their last syllable do not always take the - ísimo/-ísima ending, but instead replace the final -r with -érrimo/-érrima.

acre ? acérrimo

célebre ? celebérrimo

libre ? lebérrima

mísero ? misérrimo

salubre ? salubérrima

The suffix usually changes to -císimo/císima when the adjective ends in an -n, -dor, -or.

inferior ? inferiorcísimo

hablador ? habladorcísimo

joven ? jovencísimo

muchas gracias. :) - zhmelissa, Jan 5, 2013

Why are there two different formations of agradable? agradabilísimo y agradablísimo Is there a different meaning or reason there are two different versions? - kev-ace, Jul 24, 2013

Answer 2

alta,flaca, y vieja all of them are adjectives, it depends on the noun whether it´s masculino y feminino, right?

But cerca , it´s adv, not adj. Never seen cerco, right?

I have changed my examples to adverbs ending in a, which preserve the "a" ending in the superlative. Cerco means I fence something. It's not an adverb. - francobollo, Jan 5, 2013

Cerca as an adverb doesn't have gender. - cogumela, Jan 5, 2013

Answer 3

cerca --- cerquísima (it ends in an "a", hence its "a" ending in the superlative). Other examples:

arriba - arribísima

encima - encímisima.

muchas gracias. :) - zhmelissa, Jan 5, 2013

¿Qué podría significar encimísima? - cogumela, Jan 5, 2013