Word
Иногда живая беседа полезнее, чем долгая переписка в чате.
Meaning
Sometimes a live conversation is more useful than a long text exchange in a chat.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Иногда живая беседа полезнее, чем долгая переписка в чате.
в
in
долгий
long
чем
than
иногда
sometimes
Questions & Answers about Иногда живая беседа полезнее, чем долгая переписка в чате.
What case is живая беседа, and what is its grammatical role in the sentence?
Живая беседа is in the nominative singular (feminine).
- живая – adjective, nominative feminine singular
- беседа – noun, nominative feminine singular
In this sentence, живая беседа is the subject of the sentence – the thing about which we are making a statement. The predicate (what we say about it) is the comparative полезнее, чем долгая переписка в чате (“is more useful than a long chat exchange”).
So structurally, it’s basically:
- “Sometimes a live conversation (subject) is more useful than a long correspondence in chat (predicate).”
Why is there no Russian word for “is” here? Why don’t we say есть?