Questions & Answers about Lui ha spostato la pedina peggio di me.
Wait, I thought "worse" was peggiore. Why use peggio here?
Peggiore is an adjective (the comparative of cattivo, meaning "bad"), so it modifies nouns, like "a worse move". Peggio is an adverb (the comparative of male, meaning "badly"), so it modifies verbs. Here, it describes how he moved the pawn, so you need the adverb peggio.
Can I say più male instead of peggio?
Just like in English where we say "worse" instead of "more badly", Italian uses the irregular comparativeadverbpeggio. While you might occasionally hear più male in casual spoken Italian, peggio is the correct standard form and sounds much more natural.
Why do we use di for "than" here, instead of che?
In Italian, you use di when comparing two nouns or pronouns (like lui and me) in relation to the same action. You would use che if you were comparing two verbs, two adjectives, or two quantities. Since we are comparing two people playing the game, di me is the right choice.
What kind of game piece is a pedina?
A pedina refers to a playing piece or pawn in almost any board game, such as chess or checkers. Just like in English, it can also be used metaphorically to describe a person who is being used as a "pawn" in someone else's plan.