Ten nowy plan jest jeszcze lepszy niż tamten.

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Breakdown of Ten nowy plan jest jeszcze lepszy niż tamten.

• nowy: new
• plan: the plan
• ten: this

Questions & Answers about Ten nowy plan jest jeszcze lepszy niż tamten.

Why do we use ten and tamten here?

They are demonstratives:

• ten = this
• tamten = that

In this sentence:

• ten nowy plan = this new plan
• tamten = that one / that plan

Polish often uses tamten by itself when the noun is understood from context. So tamten here really means tamten plan, but plan is omitted because it would be repetitive.

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Why is tamten standing alone without plan after it?

Because Polish allows you to leave out the noun when it is obvious.

So instead of saying:

• Ten nowy plan jest jeszcze lepszy niż tamten plan.

you can naturally say:

• Ten nowy plan jest jeszcze lepszy niż tamten.

This works much like English this one and that one, except Polish often does not need a separate word for one.

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Why is it lepszy, not something like bardziej dobry?