Я люблю хлопок больше, чем шёлк, потому что хлопок меньше мнётся в дороге.

Russian often repeats the noun for clarity, especially when two different materials are being compared.

• ...потому что хлопок меньше мнётся... is very clear.
• ...потому что он меньше мнётся... is also possible, but он could momentarily make the listener think of шёлк.

So the repetition sounds natural and helps avoid ambiguity.

Yes. This is a very common kind of omission in Russian.

The full idea is:

• Я люблю хлопок больше, чем люблю шёлк.

But Russian often leaves out the repeated verb when it is obvious:

• Я люблю хлопок больше, чем шёлк.

So this means I like cotton more than silk, not something strange like more than silk likes... Context makes the comparison clear.

Because любить takes the accusative case, and шёлк is a masculine inanimate noun.

For masculine inanimate nouns in the singular:

• nominative = accusative

So:

• nominative: шёлк
• accusative: шёлк

That is why the form does not change.

Here больше means more in a comparison.

In this sentence:

• Я люблю хлопок больше, чем шёлк = I like cotton more than silk

It is the comparative form related to большой / много, but in usage you can simply think of больше as more.

Very common pattern:

• больше, чем... = more than...
• меньше, чем... = less than...

Literally, it means wrinkles less or gets creased less.

• меньше = less
• мнётся = gets wrinkled / creases

So хлопок меньше мнётся means:

• cotton wrinkles less
• cotton gets less creased
• cotton creases less easily

In natural English, you might also say cotton wrinkles less than silk, but here the comparison with silk is understood from the earlier part of the sentence.

Мнётся is the 3rd person singular present tense of мяться.

• infinitive: мяться
• he/she/it form: мнётся

The verb мяться means to get crumpled, wrinkled, or creased.

The -ся ending is important because it shows this is not someone wrinkling something, but the fabric itself becoming wrinkled.

Compare:

• мять = to crumple / wrinkle something
• мяться = to get crumpled / to wrinkle

So:

• Хлопок мнётся = Cotton wrinkles / gets wrinkled

Дороге is in the prepositional case after в.

• дорога = road, trip, journey
• в дороге = on the road, while traveling, during a journey

In this sentence, в дороге means something like:

• when traveling
• during travel
• on a trip

It is a very common expression in Russian.

Because потому что introduces a subordinate clause meaning because.

Russian normally puts a comma before it:

• ..., потому что ...

So the sentence is divided into:

• main clause: Я люблю хлопок больше, чем шёлк
• reason clause: потому что хлопок меньше мнётся в дороге

This punctuation is standard.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible.

You could say:

• Я люблю хлопок больше, чем шёлк
• Я больше люблю хлопок, чем шёлк

Both are understandable. The original version is very natural and neutral.

In general:

• moving больше can slightly shift emphasis
• the meaning stays basically the same here

Russian often uses word order to highlight what is most important, but this sentence is straightforward in either version.

This is a good question because there are two different words spelled the same way:

• хлопо́к = cotton
• хло́пок = clap / pop / bang

Usually Russian writing does not mark stress, so both may appear as хлопок. You understand the meaning from context.

In this sentence, the words шёлк, мнётся, and в дороге clearly show that the topic is fabric, so хлопок must mean cotton.

Yes. In Russian, ё is often written as е in ordinary texts.

So you may see both:

• шёлк
• шелк

They represent the same word: silk.

For learners, writing ё is very helpful because it shows the correct pronunciation. In careful teaching materials, dictionaries, and some books, ё is often kept. In everyday writing, it is often omitted.