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Ovaj stan je puno veći od starog.

Ovaj stan je puno veći od starog.
This flat is much bigger than the old one.
From Lesson 230:Comparatives decline (starijeg, najboljem; puno bolji)·Croatian

Breakdown of Ovaj stan je puno veći od starog.

ovaj
this (m) / ova (f), ovo (n)
velik
big
star
old
stan
apartment

Questions & Answers about Ovaj stan je puno veći od starog.

Why is "od" used here for "than", and what case follows it?
In Croatian, comparisons can be made using od (than) followed by the genitive case. Here, starog is the genitive form of the masculine adjective stari (old). You could also use nego for comparisons, but it would be followed by the nominative case here: nego stari.
What is the base adjective for veći?
The base adjective is velik (big). The comparative form "bigger" is irregular in Croatian: velik becomes veći. Because stan (flat) is a masculine noun, the adjective takes the masculine nominative form.
How does the Croatian sentence translate "the old one"?
Croatian doesn't use a filler word like "one" after an adjective. You simply use the adjective on its own in the correct case. In this sentence, od starog literally means "than the old", which naturally implies "than the old flat" based on the context.
Could I use mnogo instead of puno?
Yes, mnogo veći is completely correct and means the same thing. In everyday spoken Croatian, puno is very commonly used as an adverb to mean "much" or "a lot" before a comparative adjective.

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