Word
Это обновление хуже.
Meaning
This update is worse.
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Questions & Answers about Это обновление хуже.
Where does the word хуже come from?
Хуже is the irregular comparative form of the adjective плохой (bad) or the adverb плохо (badly). Just like in English where we say "worse" instead of "badder", Russian uses a completely different word for "worse".
Since обновление is a neuter noun, does хуже need a neuter ending?
No! Simple comparative forms like хуже, лучше, больше, and меньше are invariable. This means they never change their endings, regardless of the gender, number, or case of the noun they are describing.
Why is it это обновление and not этот обновление?
The noun обновление ends in -е, making it a neuter noun. The demonstrative pronoun for "this" must match the noun's gender, so we use the neuter form это. If the noun were masculine, we would use этот, and for feminine, эта.
Is there a trick to remembering the word обновление (update)?
Look at the root of the word: -нов-. You already know this from the word новый (new). In Russian, an "update" is literally the act of making something new again.