格別

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 格別, read かくべつ, combines rank or degree 格 with distinction 別 to express being exceptionally different from the ordinary.
• Basic usage: It predicates exceptional quality in 味は格別だ or intensifies degree in 格別に大切にする.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Grammar and combinations
  • It is not merely different 別; it evaluates something as notably exceptional compared with the ordinary.