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Would "Jag är tröttare än dig." also work? My Swedish girlfriend says it should be dig but I assume more are acceptable/equivalent?
Both work and they’re probably equally common. Usually ”än du” is the formal written variant, and ”än dig” is the spoken colloquial variant. We accept both.
In English I would say 'tireder' though I admit it might not officially be a word!
I'm having difficulty finding an authoritative source about tireder versus more tired; which might just mean very few grammaticians have written about it, or my search-fu is broken. Answers.com says it is "commonly used in British English", but "has "fallen out of common use in American English": http://www.answers.com/mobile/Q/Is_tireder_a_word
Wiktionary lists it alongside more tired: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tired
From personal experience, I know it certainly gets said and written (for example, in major newspapers) in Britain: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Atheguardian.com+tireder
For a specfic example, it's in this article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/31/afternoons-lying-cheating-morning-honest-harvard-study
So don't dismiss it yet. :-)
Nice, it sounds good but looks strange when written. If the Guardian uses then I won't be arguing, it's the only decent newspaper in the UK! :)
It is perfectly correct. There are many words that can be used with either "-er" or "more".
I need help! When do I use "som" and when "än"? Jag är tröttare som(???) du.
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som for comparison is used together with lika or så (there might be some other word that works too that I can't think of right now).
lika trött som = 'as tired as' (not än)
än in comparisons is used with adjectives in the comparative form:
tröttare än jag 'more tired than me' (not som)
Thumbs up for tireder. It is a commonly used word in British or Australian English.
Det låter som rösten säger, "tröttar än". Är det hur man skulle säga det i vergligheten?
