Italian comparatives: learn to use più / meno …. di and più / meno … che and COME.
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In this lesson you will learn how to say MORE THAN, LESS THAN, THE SAME AS, so you will learn to use comparatives.
In Italian we have what is called COMPARATIVO DI MAGGIORANZA when you will use
P IU’
You are saying that one this is more than another
If you use MENO instead of PIU’ you will be using a COMPARATIVO DI MINORANZA.
Or you can also say that two thing are the same and in this case you are using what we call COMPARATIVO DI UGUAGLIANZA.
The tricky thing in Italian is that we have two ways of saying “more than” and less than:
You can have
to say more than and you can have
to say less than.
The big question is… when do I use CHE and when do I use DI?
Let’s start by looking at DI
You will use DI when you are comparing two different things or people. You can use two different nouns or you can have two different personal subjects
Remember that when you use the preposition di you will need to join it with the article if necessary.
When do we use “che“ ?
You will use “che” when you will need to compare two or more adjectives, verbs, adverbs, nouns , pronouns and nouns with a preposition beforehand and to talk about quantity and numbers:
For example,
If you want to add exercises I suggest you pair this lesson up with the book Grammatica Practice and go to page 167! You will find it in the link here below and you can buy it directly from Amazon!
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