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# longer

«longer» in Mova's school dictionary: **having more length than something else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective, adverb (comparative of long)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Longer means having more length than something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#m1)

2) Longer means lasting more time: «Stay a bit longer». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#m2)

3) No longer means not any more: «He no longer lives here». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

more length than the thing before; «D longer» with no «than» compares with the thing just before: + D; «How much longer» asks for a difference; phrases: «longer than», «no longer», «any longer», «a little longer»

### examples

- The blue ribbon is 3 metres longer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x1)
- The rope is 5 metres longer than the string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x2)
- Which ribbon is longer? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x3)
- Days are longer in summer than in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x4)
- Can we stay a little longer at the park? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x5)
- My hair is longer than my sister's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x6)
- The shop no longer sells comics. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x7)
- A giraffe's neck is longer than a horse's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x8)
- I can bear it no longer!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#x9)

### note

«D longer» with no «than» compares with the thing just before: + D. «How much longer» asks for a difference: subtract. Trap: «no longer» has nothing to do with length.

### In the corpora

- [Big building jobs often take longer and cost more than planned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/11-when-things-break/10/)
- [Most TV romances end after the show; real relationships take much longer than a few weeks of filming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/18/)
- [AI helps scammers write perfect emails, so good spelling is no longer proof a message is real.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/16/)
- [You can be kind and honest at once: "I love the colours, the horse's legs could be longer."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/13/)
- [A squid has 8 arms and 2 longer tentacles, and like an octopus it has 3 hearts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/8-the-ocean/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «longer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.