Questions tagged [comparative]

I have encountered this sentence in Duden: Eher will ich sterben, als diesen Greis heiraten. I thought it should have been like this: Eher will ich sterben, als diesen Greis zu heiraten. Why wasn't it written like that?

I always struggle with these types of sentences in German as I'm not sure how exactly the declension of the indefinite article is decided. For example, I would normally write a sentence like "one of the most beautiful places I've visited" as "einer…

I wanted to frame a sentence with "Most importantly" Can I use "Am Wichtigsten ist" or "vor allem sollte"? I am not sure which one is the correct solution. For example, I want to convey in a letter the below sentence: I want an explanation about…