How to Make Comparisons in Italian Using Più, Che, Quanto, and Come

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We’re constantly comparing things, like how much better the food is in Italy than Canada or how much more you like spring in Tuscany than where you live.

So naturally, you’ll want to know how to do this in Italian too. Lucky for you, there are several ways of expressing comparisons. 

When you’re comparing two things, like how much taller Paolo is than Stefano, or how much smarter you are than someone else, you use something called a comparative structure.

There are three basic types of comparatives:

• di maggioranza (majority)

• di minoranza (minority)

• di uguaglianza (equality)

When you’re expressing how much “more” something is than something else, like Paolo being taller than Stefano, you use il comparativo di maggioranza, or the comparative of majority.

To form a sentence using il comparativo di maggioranza, you use the constructions

• più…di

• più + che

You use più…di when: