Breakdown of Этот дизайн мне нравится больше.
я
I
этот
this [f: эта, n: это]
нравиться
to please / to appeal
больше
more (quantity or size) / no longer, anymore
дизайн
the design
Questions & Answers about Этот дизайн мне нравится больше.
Why is больше used here instead of более to mean "more"?
Больше is the irregular comparative form of много (a lot). Here it acts as an adverb meaning you like it "a greater amount". You use более when you want to say "more [adjective]", like более красивый (more beautiful), but you use больше when it stands alone to mean "more".
Why does the sentence use мне instead of я?
In Russian, the verb нравиться (to like) literally means "to be pleasing to". The person who likes something is put in the dative case (мне = to me). The thing being liked is the grammatical subject. So this sentence literally translates to "This design is pleasing to me more."
Why is the verb conjugated as нравится instead of taking an "I" ending?
Because the grammatical subject of the sentence is Этот дизайн (This design), not you! Since the design is doing the "pleasing", the verb takes the third-person singular (he/she/it) ending.
Why does нравится end in -тся without a soft sign (ь)?
The soft sign is only used in the infinitive (dictionary) form of reflexive verbs, like нравиться (to be pleasing). Because the verb here is actively conjugated to match the subject дизайн, it takes the regular third-person ending -тся without the soft sign.
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