Žitná mouka má méně lepku než pšeničná mouka.

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Breakdown of Žitná mouka má méně lepku než pšeničná mouka.

• než: than
• méně: less
• žitná mouka: the rye flour

Questions & Answers about Žitná mouka má méně lepku než pšeničná mouka.

Why are žitná and pšeničná adjective forms instead of nouns?

Because Czech often expresses things like rye flour and wheat flour with an adjective + noun structure.

• žitná mouka = literally rye-type flour
• pšeničná mouka = literally wheat-type flour

These adjectives come from:

• žito = rye
• pšenice = wheat

So instead of stacking two nouns the way English often does, Czech commonly turns the material/source word into an adjective.

Why do žitná and pšeničná both end in -á?

Because they have to agree with mouka.

Mouka is:

• feminine
• singular
• nominative

So the adjectives describing it must also be feminine singular nominative, which here gives the ending -á:

• žitný → masculine base form

• žitná → feminine form

• pšeničný → masculine base form
• pšeničná → feminine form

This is basic adjective agreement in Czech.

Why does the sentence use má? Why not something like je?