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Сегодня сигнал слабее, чем вчера, поэтому мне трудно общаться онлайн.
Meaning
Today the signal is weaker than yesterday, so it is hard for me to communicate online.
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Breakdown of Сегодня сигнал слабее, чем вчера, поэтому мне трудно общаться онлайн.
вчера
yesterday
мне
me
сегодня
today
чем
than
Questions & Answers about Сегодня сигнал слабее, чем вчера, поэтому мне трудно общаться онлайн.
Why is there no verb meaning is in Сегодня сигнал слабее?
Russian often omits the present-tense form of to be. So Сегодня сигнал слабее literally reads Today the signal (is) weaker. Adding есть would usually sound unnatural here.
What part of speech is слабее, and why not слабый?
Слабее is the comparative form of the adjective слабый (weak).
- слабый = weak (basic description)
- слабее = weaker (comparison)
Because the sentence compares today with yesterday, Russian uses the comparative.
Why do we use чем in слабее, чем вчера?
In Russian, one common way to express comparisons is:
- (comparative) + чем + (what you compare to)
So слабее, чем вчера = weaker than yesterday.
(Another option exists: вчерашнего after certain comparatives, but чем + вчера is the most straightforward and very common.)
Is вчера a noun in some case here?
No—вчера is an adverb meaning yesterday. It doesn’t change form and isn’t declined. It simply answers