"Ydy e'n enwocach na hi?"

Translation: Is he more famous than her?

[Stephen228621]

It says 4 comments, but I can't find any. I have been frightened off "he was more famous than she."

[CathyComma]

Stephen228621, you can get around that with "than she is." It's a little bit of a pain but worth it if you, like me, find "more famous than her" unpleasant to the ear. (I'm not a strict prescriptivist, but I'm not ready to embrace disjunctive pronouns, and it annoys me that Duo marks "more famous than she" incorrect.)

[ibisc]

The forms we use and accept in this context are those in modern English textbooks for both British and American English: either '... than her' or '... than she is'.

[Stephen228621]

But not simply "than she"? What modern textbooks are you referring to?

[ibisc]

The ones on my desk these days are Swan's 'Practical English Usage' and the 'Longman Student Grammar'.

[Julianbark6]

Lots of learned comments have been added, but surely the basic problem is "was" rather than "is"?