Što bolje poravnaš dasku, to je komoda stabilnija.

to be

Breakdown of Što bolje poravnaš dasku, to je komoda stabilnija.

• bolje: better
• daska: a wooden board
• komoda: a chest of drawers

Questions & Answers about Što bolje poravnaš dasku, to je komoda stabilnija.

What does što ..., to ... mean in this sentence?

This is a very common correlative comparative pattern in Serbian.

Što X, to Y means:

• the more X, the more Y
• the better X, the more Y
• the less X, the less Y

So here:

Što bolje poravnaš dasku, to je komoda stabilnija.
= The better you level the board, the more stable the chest of drawers is.

In this pattern, što and to do not literally mean what and that. Together they create the the ... the ... relationship.

Why is it bolje and not bolji?

Because bolje is an adverb, and it modifies the verb poravnaš.

The sentence is talking about how you level the board:

• dobro = well
• bolje = better

So:

• bolje poravnaš = you level it better

By contrast, bolji is an adjective, used to describe a noun:

• bolji sto = a better table

Here we are not describing daska as better; we are describing the action of leveling.