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El mono es más ágil que la tortuga.

El mono es más ágil que la tortuga.
The monkey is more agile than the turtle.
From Lesson 104:Adjective comparatives (más que, menos que)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El mono es más ágil que la tortuga.

Why does Spanish use más ágil que instead of a single word like 'agiler'?
In Spanish, you don't add endings like '-er' to adjectives to compare things. Instead, you always use the formula más (more) + adjective + que (than). So, 'more agile than' is translated word-for-word as más ágil que.
Would ágil change if the feminine noun la tortuga was at the start of the sentence?
No. Adjectives that end in a consonant, like ágil, have the same form for both masculine and feminine nouns. It only changes if the noun is plural, becoming ágiles.
I sometimes see de used for 'than'. Why is it que here?
When comparing two nouns using an adjective (like the monkey and the turtle here), 'than' is always que. You generally only use de for 'than' when it comes before numbers or exact quantities, like saying 'more than five'.
Why is there an accent mark on ágil?
The accent mark tells you to put the spoken stress on the first syllable (á-gil). Because the word ends in l (a consonant that isn't n or s), the standard Spanish pronunciation rule would normally stress the final syllable. The written accent overrides this rule.

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