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Coffee Break French

How to compare nouns in French with 'plus' or 'moins' | A Coffee Break with Max

Coffee Break French

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Coffee Break French, Language Learning, Courses, Education, French Lessons, French Language, Learn French, Français

4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Join Max for a coffee break in which he will explain how to make comparisons with nouns using plus de and moins de. You’ll learn how to form these structures, hear plenty of examples in context and pick up tips to make your comparisons sound natural and accurate. 


By the end, you’ll feel confident saying things like plus de livres, moins de films, and much more.


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0:00.0

Sallu, it's Max the Coffee Break French.

0:03.9

And what I have for you today is a little bit different from what you usually find in our podcast feed.

0:12.1

This will be a shorter episode.

0:14.9

You can think of it as an espresso.

0:18.5

In case this is the first Coffee Break French episode you come across, you should know that this is not our usual style.

0:25.6

Our regular coffee break episodes are longer, more in depth, and normally with a teacher and a student of the language.

0:35.6

In this short episode, I'm going to explain how to compare nouns in French.

0:54.1

I'll start with the superiority. I will start with the superiority.

0:57.0

So that's in English more than a noun than.

1:03.0

In French, in French to express this idea, we use plus de, followed by the noun, then ke.

1:15.1

Plus de, the noun and ke.

1:19.2

Let's have some examples.

1:22.0

There are plus de fie that de garso in this class.

1:30.8

There are more girls than boys in this class. Plus of the fee than girls than boys in this class.

1:34.8

A other example.

1:38.2

I have more books than you.

1:44.8

Plus de, books than you. You can see from this that if you

1:48.0

you can see from this that if you compare two nouns as in our first

1:54.3

example, you need an extra de before the second noun.

1:59.4

Plus de fie,

2:02.6

than de garso.

2:06.2

However, when it's a pronoun, for example,

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