Breakdown of Почему мощный процессор намного эффективнее?
почему
why
намного
much, by far
процессор
processor
мощный
powerful
эффективный
efficient
Questions & Answers about Почему мощный процессор намного эффективнее?
Why do we use намного here, and could we use гораздо instead?
Both намного and гораздо mean "much" or "a lot" when paired with a comparative adjective like эффективнее. They are completely interchangeable, so saying гораздо эффективнее would mean exactly the same thing in this sentence.
Why does эффективнее end in -ее?
This is the regular comparative form meaning "more efficient". For most standard adjectives like эффективный, you just drop the dictionary ending (-ый) and add -ее. The best part about these -ее comparatives is that they never change for gender, number, or case!
Where is the verb "is" in this sentence?
In Russian, the present tense verb "to be" is practically always skipped. As a quick refresher, you simply place the subject (мощный процессор) directly alongside its description (намного эффективнее) without any connecting verb.
Since процессор is an English loanword, how do I know what gender it is?
Foreign loanwords in Russian almost always adopt a gender based on how they are spelled in Russian. Because процессор ends in a consonant, it is treated as a standard masculine noun. That is why the adjective describing it, мощный, is also in the masculine form.
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