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# longer

adjective, adverb (comparative of long)

«longer» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Longer means having more length than something else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#m1)
2. Longer means lasting more time: «Stay a bit longer». [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/#m3)

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

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

- Entreat the LORD, and let there be enough of these mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.' (Torah EXO.9.28, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/longer/#x1)
- And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Torah EXO.2.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/longer/#x2)
- The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. (Writings JOB.11.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/longer/#x3)
- And the priests consented that they should take no longer money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house. (Prophets 2KI.12.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/longer/#x4)
- So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. (Prophets 2SA.20.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/longer/#x5)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «longer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/longer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«longer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/longer.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «longer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/L/longer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«longer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/longer.html) on Mova free.