好得多?

Hi--you want to say "much better, thanks" I guess. I think I would say

好多了，谢谢你的关心。

Hope you'll get input from other people too!

yes thats what i want to say

but you see i have already said that sentence to someone and i would like to know if he is laughing at me right now :$

* edit * 感冒好得多 sounds to me like you're saying "Having a cold is way better (than having some other sickness or problem. or, better than doing something that would let you avoid catching a cold but that you don't want to do = you'd rather catch a cold, than do that something)", which doesn't answer the question asked.

(Oh so the sentence you already said is 感冒好得多 you mean. Well I guess he got your meaning. If he didn't laugh at you then, he's probably not laughing right now I wouldn't think.)

To add to zhenlijiang's answer, I checked for 好得多 on nciku. The three sample sentences they gave all used 比, and indicated that something was better than something else. In English, when you have a cold and say you are 'better', you mean 'improved' - not better than something. I suppose you could say 我今天比昨天好得多.

Which brings me to a question of my own - can the first element in a 比 comparison be omitted? - ie. does 比昨天好得多 make any sense?

oh my god i am so embarrassed right now

i actually said "having cold is better" ..

i wasn't talking to him face to face ,i sent a text messege to him

he's probably having a good laugh right now

thank you zhenlijiang, i will stop trying to invent sentences now ,will ask you first.

and go_manly, my professor did say that it is used with 比 to compare and she also mentioned the sentence you said "我今天比昨天好得多." but i thought i could shorten it a bit (as i mentioned before i will stop playing with grammer rules)

okay so now i would like to call my chinese friend and correct this terrible mistake that i did, can i say

我刚才发现 "感冒好得多" 的意思是我喜欢感冒但是我要说的是"我今天比昨天好得多" "感冒好多了"

and how do i say "i am so embarrassed that i said this" ?

"i am so embarrassed that i said this"

=不好意思我之前说错了。

it is not that serious than you may thoght,take it easy! We all know that you are speaking your second language :)

I agree, it was a minor error. But! I did write down this handy phrase for the inevitable moment I will need it for having said something truly embarrassing!