Spanish to Tatar: más agua caliente and agua más caliente ask for different changes
Spanish más can increase quantity or a quality
Spanish Quiero más agua caliente asks for a greater quantity of hot water. Quiero agua más caliente asks for water at a higher temperature. The same words occur in different arrangements, but the requested change is different. A Tatar translation should not treat every más as a separate quantity word regardless of what it modifies.
The Tatarstan Academy of Sciences describes comparative adjective forms such as җылы, warm, and җылырак, warmer. It separately illustrates күп, much or many, and күбрәк, more. These examples show different places where the comparison can be expressed: in the temperature description or in the quantity expression.
Adding water and increasing temperature are separate actions
Consider a Spanish instruction for preparing a bath. Más agua caliente can mean adding more of the hot water already available. Agua más caliente requests a warmer temperature. Performing only the first action need not satisfy the second: adding the same-temperature water can increase volume without making the mixture warmer.
A Tatar version that preserves a general word meaning more but attaches it to the wrong part of the phrase can therefore produce the wrong instruction. The problem is not the amount of vocabulary translated. It is the scope of comparison: is the speaker comparing quantities of water or comparing temperatures? A thermometer reading and the fill level would provide different evidence about whether each request was satisfied.
Spanish can make the request explicit as Aumenta la cantidad or Aumenta la temperatura. These paraphrases are useful for understanding the intended contrast, but they should not be added as new requirements when the source only asks for one change. A request for more water must not become an instruction to raise temperature as well.
A comparative ending is not an extra plural marker
The academy’s morphology overview identifies -рак and -рәк as comparative adjective suffixes. Their appearance does not mean that a Spanish singular object has become plural. The text also gives the cold comparison суык and суыграк, showing that the comparative form may involve a change at the end of the stem.
Spanish uses separate más with both más caliente and más frío, while the corresponding Tatar quality comparison can be expressed inside the adjective. Expecting a separate target word at the position of every Spanish más can overlook comparison already encoded morphologically. Conversely, an adjective comparative cannot simply replace a request about quantity.
For the water instruction, preserve the measurement being changed. The original may ask for additional volume, greater warmth, or both through separate wording. The Tatar forms should follow that distinction. Recognising comparative morphology helps identify a faithful warmer-or-colder description, while keeping the quantity comparison separate prevents a superficially similar Spanish phrase from producing the wrong practical result.
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