Expressing "much more" in comparisons

Structure

Examples

• 拼音比汉字容易很多。
  Pīn yīn bǐ hàn zì róng yì hěn duō.
  Pinyin is much easier than Chinese characters.
• 坐高铁比坐飞机方便很多。
  Zuò gāo tiě bǐ zuò fēi jī fāng biàn hěn duō.
  It's much more convenient to take the high-speed train than the airplane.
• 这个女老师比那个男老师严格得多。
  Zhè ge nǚ lǎo shī bǐ nà ge nán lǎo shī yán gé dé duō.
  This female teacher is much stricter than that male teacher.
• 你比我有经验多了。
  Nǐ bǐ wǒ yǒu jīng yàn duō le.
  You're much more experienced than me.
• 他打篮球比我厉害多了。
  Tā dǎ lán qiú bǐ wǒ lì hài duō le.
  He plays basketball much better than I do.

Words that use this

• 比bǐto compare; (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun}; ratio; to gesture; (Taiwan pr. [bì] in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese)
• 很多hěn duōvery many/very much/great (quantity)