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==English==

===Adverb===
{{head|en|adverb}}

# {{lb|en|degree}} Progressively more.
#: {{ux|en|The road gets '''more and more''' steep.}}
#: {{ux|en|Oil is getting '''more and more''' expensive.}}
#: {{ux|en|He started calling '''more and more''' frequently.}}
#* '''1923''', [[w:Leo Tolstoy|Leo Tolstoy]], Louise and Aylmer Maude (translators), ''[[s:War and Peace (Tolstoy)/Book 1/Chapter 20|War and Peace]]'',
#*: What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her '''more and more''' beaming face and quivering nose.
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1959|month=February|author=G. Freeman Allen|title=Southampton&mdash;Gateway to the Ocean|journal=Trains Illustrated|page=91|text=The Southern acquired them because the little Class "B4" 0-4-0 tanks were finding heavy modern rolling stock '''more and more''' of a handful, and at war's end the railway had nothing of suitable power but short wheelbase on its books to take their place on the more tortuous of the dock lines.}}
# {{lb|en|manner}} In a manner that progressively increases.
#: {{ux|en|The wound hurt '''more and more''' as we walked on.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1782|author=w:Robert Burns|title=[[s:John Barleycorn (Burns)|John Barleycorn]]
|passage=His colour sicken'd '''more and more''',<br>He faded into age;<br>And then his enemies began<br>To show their deadly rage.}}
#* {{RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam|XXI|35|A third is wroth: ‘Is this an hour<br>⁠For private sorrow’s barren song,<br>⁠When '''more and more''' the people throng<br>The chairs and thrones of civil power?’}}
# {{lb|en|modal}} {{non-gloss|Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.}}
#: {{ux|en|'''More and more''', children are among the first to take up new technologies.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1864|month=September|title=The Cadmean Madness|journal=[[w:The Atlantic|The Atlantic Monthly]]|volume=14
|passage='''More and more''' it is not the soul and Nature, but the eye and print, whose resultant is thought.}}

====Usage notes====
* The degree adverb sense is often an ellipsis of an instance of the more general phenomenon of reduplication of the comparative form of adjectives or adverbs (e.g. "hotter and hotter").

====Coordinate terms====
* {{l|en|less and less}}
* {{l|en|further and further}}
* {{l|en|farther and farther}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|progressively more}}
* Armenian: {{t|hy|ավելի ու ավելի}}
* Catalan: {{t|ca|cada vegada més}}, {{t|ca|cada cop més}}, {{t|ca|més i més}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|越來越|tr=yuèláiyuè}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|meer en meer}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|yhä enemmän}}
* French: {{t+|fr|de plus en plus}}
* German: {{t+|de|immer}} {{q|+ comparative}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|[[egyre]] ... [[-bb]]/[[-abb]]/[[-ebb]]/[[-obb]]}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|cata vice plus}}, {{t|ia|de plus in plus}}, {{t|ia|plus e plus}}
* Italian: {{t|it|viepiù}}, {{t|it|sempre più}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|ますます|tr=masumasu|sc=Jpan}}, {{t+|ja|更|tr=[[さらに]], sara ni|alt=更に|sc=Jpan}}
* Latin: {{t|la|[[magis]] [[magis]][[-que|que]]}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|повеќе и повеќе}}, {{t|mk|сѐ повеќе}}, {{t|mk|сѐ повеќе и повеќе}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|coraz więcej}}, {{t+|pl|coraz}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|cada vez mais}}
* Romanian: {{t|ro|[[din ce în ce]] [[mai]]}}, {{t|ro|[[tot]] [[mai]]}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|бо́льше и бо́льше}}, {{t|ru|всё бо́льше}}
* Spanish: {{t|es|cada vez más}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|allt}} {{q|+ comparative}}, {{t|sv|mer och mer}}
* Volapük: {{t|vo|ai plu}}
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{{trans-top|in a manner that progressively increases}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|越來越|tr=yuèláiyuè}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|yhä enemmän}}
* German: {{t|de|[[immer]] [[mehr]]}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|egyre jobban}}
* Italian: {{t|it|viepiù}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|coraz bardziej}}, {{t+|pl|coraz}} {{qualifier|+the comparitive}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|cada vez mais}}
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{{trans-top|indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[越來越]][[多]][[地]]|tr=yuèláiyuè duō de}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|yhä enemmän}}, {{t|fi|yhä useammin}}
* German: {{t|de|[[mehr]] [[und]] [[mehr]]}}, {{t|de|im [[zunehmen]]den [[Maß]]e}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|egyre inkább}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[coraz]] [[więcej]]}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|cada vez mais}}
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* French: {{t+check|fr|de plus en plus}}
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===Determiner===
{{en-det}}

# Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.
#: {{ux|en|There are '''more and more''' people who keep pets these days.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2023 January 11|author=Philip Haigh|title=Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years|journal=RAIL|issue=974|page=4|text=It's unarguable that ticket offices are less relevant than they once were. '''More and more''' passengers buy tickets online.}}

====Coordinate terms====
* {{l|en|fewer and fewer}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|increasingly more}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t|cmn|[[越來越]][[多]][[地]]|tr=yuèláiyuè duō de}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|yhä enemmän}}, {{t|fi|yhä useampi}}
* German: {{t|de|immer mehr}}, {{t|de|[[zunehmend]] [[mehr]]}}
* Polish: {{t|pl|[[coraz]] [[więcej]]}}
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* French: {{t-check|fr|de plus en plus de}}
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{{cln|en|degree adverbs|manner adverbs|modal adverbs|reduplicated coordinated pairs}}