Practice making comparisons
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| Do you know how to make comparisons in Japanese? |
| Welcome to Three Step Japanese Practice by JapanesePod101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to make comparisons. |
| Let’s look at the main dialogue. |
| Two people are having a conversation. |
| クラスの中で ひまりちゃんが いちばん じょうずです｡ (Kurasu no naka de Himari-chan ga ichiban jōzu desu.) |
| She's the best in the class. |
| そうですか｡ じゃ、ひまりの ほうが わたしよりじょうずですね｡ (Sō desu ka. Ja, Himari no hō ga watashi yori jōzu desu ne.) |
| Is that so? Then Himari is better than me. |
| This sentence follows the pattern here. |
| [Noun 1] のほうが [Noun 2] より [Adjective] です｡ |
| You can also flip the order depending on which noun you want to focus on |
| We use this pattern to compare two things and say that one has more of a certain quality than the other. |
| Let’s practice with this grammar more in this lesson. |
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