Comparison in Ŋʒädär

In Ŋʒädär, the adjective for which two NPs are compared is in the instrumental case:

pöntü-rük ('with rough', 'with coarse', in comparative structures: rougher, coarser)

 However, it is also inflected like a verb:

lesnı-rık-ta-jut '(s)he is faster than you'

If both nouns are third person, the lesser one is marked by a circumposition, Un-[dative]-bI.

To compare non-subjects - something like 'I like her more than him', one would rephrase it as 'I like her, she un_him_bi like_ptcpl_instrumental_(3sg)_direct', or 'me.dat she un_him_bi like_pass.ptcpl_instrumental_(3sg)_direct'.

For even more oblique comparison, such as 'it's better at home than in the forest', one would construct the sentence as

soman* un orvur-(u)m bı maba-rak-s
home (than) forest-dat (than) good-instr-intransitive

For oblique comparisons, there is no way of using the inverse and direct to compare nouns of different rank - the circumposition is necessary.