"Împăratul este mai puternic ca regele."

Translation: The emperor is stronger than the king.

[zest16]

What is the difference between "decăt" and "ca"?

[Puer_Paulli]

"Decât", in most cases, is the exact equivalent of "than" (more powerful than the king/ mai puternic decât regele). However, "ca" is the equivalent of "as" (beautiful as a flower/ frumos ca o floare) or "like" but only when used in equal comparisons (slow like a snail/ lent ca un melc).
It's an overlooked gramatical error that most Romanian people do.

[Petra550060]

I am a native Romanian speaker and I am horrified to see these kind of mistakes. The correct sentence in Romanian is "Împaratul este mai puternic DECÂT regele.", because it is a comparison. Please be careful with these. (Romanians tend to make such mistakes, because pronouncing "ca" is faster and much easier than pronouncing "decât". We don't see the mistake)

[GlennEvani]

I'm sorry to say this, but this course hasn't taught us to say "Can I use your toilet?" yet, but here we are discussing kings and emperors. And now back to our regularly scheduled program....

[Puer_Paulli]

"Pot să îți folosesc toaleta?", but, imo, it sounds hella unnatural (actually, please never use this phrase; I personally have never used it & never heard anyone using it). You'd be the safest using the Romanian equivalent of "Where is the toilet/ bathroom?", which is "Unde e toaleta/ baia?".

[pingo1387]

Does this sentence refer solely to physical strength, as in "The emperor could win against the king in a fist-fight," or could it also refer to political strength, as in "The emperor has more law-making power than the king"?

[IndiraSinghRo]

Împărat rege what is the difrent

[coinaday]

emperor vs king.

An empire, roughly speaking, is stitching together a bunch of different places under one ruler, while a kingdom generally is one united land. The Roman empire, for instance, included a bunch of different lands which were conquered and conceptually still considered distinct although ruled together. Compare to, for instance, Sweden which is a Kingdom. But then the complexity is, the Kingdom gets some additional lands somewhere else, and then there's the Swedish Empire for a while. Then they lose those extra lands and you're back do the King having just his Kingdom.

It's a matter of perspective and can be a subtle distinction sometimes, but there is a conceptual difference there. An empire is not necessarily larger, but it will tend to be as it's a type of union essentially.