Breakdown of По-моему, цифровой фотоаппарат очень удобный по сравнению с аналоговым.
очень
very
удобный
comfortable / convenient
по-моему
in my opinion
цифровой
digital
фотоаппарат
camera (for photos)
по сравнению с
compared to
аналоговый
analog
Questions & Answers about По-моему, цифровой фотоаппарат очень удобный по сравнению с аналоговым.
Why is the word аналоговым in the instrumental case?
The phrase по сравнению с (compared to) ends with the preposition с, which requires the instrumental case here. The word аналоговым is the instrumental masculine singular form of the adjective аналоговый. The noun it modifies, фотоаппаратом, is simply omitted to avoid repeating it from earlier in the sentence.
Is it possible to use the comparative adjective удобнее (more convenient) instead of this structure?
Yes! You could easily say цифровой фотоаппарат удобнее аналогового (using the comparative adjective followed by the genitive case). The structure with по сравнению с is just an alternative that lets you state a strong quality (очень удобный) while explicitly drawing a comparison to something else.
Why does По-моему have a hyphen and a comma?
Adverbs formed from adjectives or pronouns using the prefix по- and suffixes like -ому or -ему are always hyphenated. Furthermore, because по-моему (in my opinion) is an introductory word that shows the speaker's personal attitude, Russian punctuation rules require it to be separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma.
Could we use the short-form adjective удобен here instead of удобный?
Yes, but it changes the tone. Using the full form удобный as a predicate (telling us what the camera is) is very common in everyday conversational speech to describe a permanent characteristic. The short form удобен would mean the exact same thing but sounds noticeably more formal or bookish.
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