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SILVER ERA · ことばを、少しずつ。
JLPT BANDN5 BEGINNER → N1 ADVANCED

ますます

N3
masumasu
  1. increasingly
  2. more and more
adverb

Also written 益々

Chinese meanings

越来越

Examples

  • われわれは彼かれをますます尊そん敬けいした。
    We respected him all the more.
    我们越来越尊敬他。
  • 彼かの女じょはますます太ふとっていくようだ。
    She seems to get fatter and fatter.
    她似乎越来越胖了。
Use this entry in code
import { getVocabById } from 'kotowa';
getVocabById('f1bbdd1149'); // ますます
{
  "id": "f1bbdd1149",
  "word": "ますます",
  "reading": "ますます",
  "romaji": "masumasu",
  "meanings": [
    "increasingly",
    "more and more"
  ],
  "level": "N3",
  "pos": [
    "adv"
  ],
  "jmdict_id": 1603950,
  "other_forms": [
    "益々"
  ],
  "examples": [
    {
      "ja": "われわれは彼をますます尊敬した。",
      "furigana": "われわれは{彼|かれ}をますます{尊敬|そんけい}した。",
      "en": "We respected him all the more.",
      "tatoeba_id": 191595
    },
    {
      "ja": "彼女はますます太っていくようだ。",
      "furigana": "{彼女|かのじょ}はますます{太|ふと}っていくようだ。",
      "en": "She seems to get fatter and fatter.",
      "tatoeba_id": 91501
    }
  ],
  "zh": {
    "status": "reviewed",
    "source_hash": "5636e64d1f52fdbdd1918fa958e5362675adbb7f2e1e6e16f2296b860180d223",
    "meanings": [
      "越来越"
    ],
    "examples": [
      {
        "ja": "われわれは彼をますます尊敬した。",
        "zh": "我们越来越尊敬他。"
      },
      {
        "ja": "彼女はますます太っていくようだ。",
        "zh": "她似乎越来越胖了。"
      }
    ],
    "references": [
      "upstream vocab/n3/f1bbdd1149",
      "JMdict ent_seq 1603950; checked against downloaded JMdict_e.gz on 2026-10-28",
      "Original Chinese authored and reviewed by Codex; no independent human review"
    ],
    "reviewer": "Codex",
    "review_method": "ai",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-10-28",
    "review_hash": "71b1190a443733bddee22589fa4be26eef9b939e6b1948595f63d0adc111a32c"
  }
}