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Novi ekran je gori nego stari.

Novi ekran je gori nego stari.
The new screen is worse than the old one.
From Lesson 103:Irregular comparative adjectives (bolji, gori, veći, manji)·Croatian

Breakdown of Novi ekran je gori nego stari.

biti
to be (sam, si, je)
nov
new
star
old
nego
than
ekran
screen
gori
worse

Questions & Answers about Novi ekran je gori nego stari.

What is the base form of the adjective gori?
Gori means "worse" and is the irregular comparative form of loš (bad). Since it is describing the masculine noun ekran, it is in the masculine singular form here. If it were describing a feminine noun, it would be gora.
How does the word nego work in this comparison?
Nego translates to "than" when comparing two things. The helpful rule for nego is that the word following it stays in the exact same grammatical case as the first thing being compared. Since novi ekran is the subject (nominative case), stari is also in the nominative case.
Why do the adjectives end in -i (novi, stari) instead of just nov and star?
The -i ending is the "definite" form of masculine adjectives, which works a lot like the word "the" in English. Because we are talking about the specific new screen and the specific old one, we use novi and stari instead of the indefinite forms nov and star.
Why is there no Croatian word for "one" at the end of the sentence?
In English we say "the old one" so we don't have to repeat the noun. In Croatian, you simply leave the noun out and let the adjective stand on its own! The adjective stari already matches the gender and case of ekran, so its meaning is perfectly clear without adding an extra word.

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