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越来越

越来越 — more and more

Pattern

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How it works

越来越 means a quality or feeling increases over time — "more and more (adj.)." It attaches to an adjective or a mental/state verb; you don't add a degree adverb like 很 in front of the adjective.

Examples

天气越来越冷了。
Tiānqì yuèláiyuè lěng le.
The weather is getting colder and colder.
他的汉语越来越好。
Tā de Hànyǔ yuèláiyuè hǎo.
His Chinese is getting better and better.

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In the app, 越来越 is underlined wherever it appears in the stories you read, and practised with sentences from them. Free.