Adjetivos en comparaciones

Question

Una pregunta asociada con la siguiente frase:

Aunque Bellatrix es peligrosa no es la mitad de peligrosa que Voldemort.

¿El segundo ejemplo de "peligrosa" debe corresponder a Bellatrix, la cual es mujer, o a Voldemort, el cual es hombre? Es preguntar ¿debe ser peligroso o peligrosa?

Welcome to SpanishDict. - rac1, May 3, 2017

Answer 1

Hi, ndunn!

Your question is smart. Thanks for sharing.

La oración es correcta. La segunda "peligrosa" se refiere también a Bellatrix (the statement is correct, the second "peligrosa" is also linked to Bellatrix).

Some other collocations with [hopefully useful] notes:

1)- Bellatrix es peligrosa, pero no tan peligrosa como Valdemort (here, as much as in the original statement, the repetition of the word "peligrosa" does not add any value to the sentence, so it should be avoided; besides, the construction "no es la mitad de" could sound "cool" but I would not recommend it at all. You can not actually quantify the danger. It's subjective).

2)- Bellatrix es peligrosa, pero no tanto como Voldemort (this one is better in style).

3) Bellatrix y Valdemort son peligrosos. El [lo es] mucho más (this one looks "clean" too).

4) Bellatrix no es ni la mitad de peligrosa que Valdemort (although this one is a slight improvement of the original statement and it's perfectly understandable; I would not recommend it either, specially in a written text).

5) Bellatrix no es tan peligrosa como Valdemort (I like this one. It's simple and direct)

6) Valdemort es [mucho] más peligroso que Bellatrix (good as well).

Thanks, Raff75! That's helpful. Number 5 is simple and clear. - ndunn, May 3, 2017