"Моя сестра выше меня."
Translation:My sister is taller than me.
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"taller than me" is definitely colloquial English, but textbook English grammar would be "taller than I", or "taller than I am."
It can be. Remember when comparing there are two ways. чем + «nominative», or just «genitive». So: моя сестра выше чем я
Genitive, if you say выше меня. However for all personal pronouns genitive and accusative cases are the same, if i'm not forgetting something.
It's not clear with я/меня, but substitute some other noun, for instance, дерево, and the correct way to say it is выше дерева, so genitive. The accusative case would have been дерево. I know this probably doesn't help when you are learning, but this can help down the road when you already know it's genitive and are trying to check yourself.
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I feel like I'm missing something, can you tell me what is the relationship between меня and моего ?
Why not высокее?
The same reason you say "better" instead of "gooder" in English. It's an exception.
My first thought when reading "my sister is higher than me" is that you and your sister are smoking pot together and that it effects your sister more than it does you. ;-)
If you mean that she's 180 cm tall and you're only 175 cm, then you have to say "taller". Your sentence works if you are standing on the floor and she's standing on a chair.
...but it will be the same word in Russian: выше -- for both higher and taller than I. You can also say выше меня and выше чем я. Almost the same meaning, although I would personally tend to say выше меня for taller and [она сейчас] выше чем я for higher. The context usually sorts it out.
I is the subject of implied verb, it's incorrect to use objective pronoun.
"Taller than I (am)". You can't say she is "taller than me am". To be pedantically correct one should say "she is taller than I", but that's not modern usage.
Depends on if you're using "than" as a preposition or a conjunction (it can go either way here). As a preposition, you would use "than me". As a conjuction, you would say "than I am" (a subject paired with a verb), but pedantically may omit the verb.
