The superlative is accompanied by a definite article when it is used in a predicative or adverbial position. In older Frisian, the superlative could be found without an accompanying article. In adverbial position, the article is neuter gender and the schwa of the superlative is optional, as shown in the examples below:

The article cannot be omitted in adverbial position:

However, irregular superlatives, which are necessarily frequent and which seem to have undergone some meaning specialisation, may occur without article, as the examples below show:

The last example involves the form earstfirst, which is both the superlative of ierearly and the ordinal form of the numeral ienone. Ordinals can generally occur without the article:

The examples below shot that, in predicative position the article may be neuter gender or common gender:

The article cannot be omitted in predicative position:

If the article is common gender, then the schwa of the superlative is obligatory. This is shown in the examples below:

This probably indicates that the superlative has been nominalized. However, with ordinary adjectives, neuter nominalisations also require the schwa to be present:

In attributive position, a bare superlative is not accompanied by an article. However, the noun is itself accompanied by its own definite article, in case a superlative is attributed to it. This is shown in the following examples:

If the superlative is expanded, it is possible in spoken language to repeat the definite article:

In addition, it must be noted that if two articles are adjacent, the second one is dropped. Recall that neuter superlatives take the neuter article. This article may be dropped, and usually is dropped in spoken language, when it follows the article of a noun, regardless of the gender of the noun's article:

If the two are not adjacent, then the article of the neuter superlative must be present: