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Fociis

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1. Comparisons are of the form「A は, Bより~です」or 「Aのほうが、Bより~です」. But I don't understand the meaning of ほうin the latter pattern. Can someone please explain?

2. How is the form ど+verb actually used to say "how to + verb"? Sometimes I hear the verb in its て form and sometimes I don't.

3. ぼくにとっては、英語のほうが数学よりかんたんだ。
What does the とって mean in the above?
 
1) "hou" means something like "way" so I think of it as "The way of A is XXXX than B.

3) "ni totte" is an expression that means "Concerning" according to my dictionary.
 
Do ほう and ばい have the same meaning?
Can you give us some example for ばい?
The word ばい I can think of is 倍, which means duplicate.
e.g.
このりんごはあのりんごの倍の大きさです。
(This apple is twice as big in size as that one.)
And so far I cannot think of other word pronounced ばい and has the same function/meaning as 方(ほう).
 
Example :
新しい車は前の車より3倍ぐらい静かです。
(あたらしい くるま は まえ の くるま より 3 ばい しずか です。)

倍 in this sentence doesn't mean twice.
 
Sorry my previous post is not clear and misleading.
I meant to write "multiple" not "duplicate".
倍 means double, 2倍 means the same, 3倍 means triple, three times...
新しい車は前の車より3倍静かです。
The new car is three times as quiet as its previous model.
 
Sometimes 倍 is used in a similar meaning with ほう.

I couldn't recall any example now, but I remember a sentence starting :
あなた の ばい。。。 (For you case...)
 
You're referring to 場合 (ばあい), which is somewhat different from ほう
 
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