ज्यों-ज्यों ... त्यों-त्यों

The More ... the More

Level 6Sounds Like jyōṁ-jyōṁ ... tyōṁ-tyōṁ

ज्यों-ज्यों X, त्यों-त्यों Y means as X happens more, Y happens more too.

How It Works

This pair connects two developments that move in step: the more one grows or shrinks, the more the other does. English often says as ... or the more ..., the more ....

The verbs usually describe change over time. -ता जाना (to keep becoming) is very common in both clauses: दिन चढ़ता गया (the day went on), गर्मी बढ़ती गई (the heat kept rising). A present habit form states a general truth: ज्यों-ज्यों अभ्यास बढ़ता है, ...

RegisterFirst clauseSecond clause
Written, literaryज्यों-ज्योंत्यों-त्यों
Everydayजैसे-जैसेवैसे-वैसे

The two clauses have their own subjects, so agreement is worked out separately in each: दिन (masculine) चढ़ता गया, गर्मी (feminine) बढ़ती गई.

Do not confuse this pair with the set phrase ज्यों का त्यों, which means exactly as it was, unchanged.

Examples (4)

  1. ज्यों-ज्यों दिन चढ़ता गया, त्यों-त्यों गर्मी बढ़ती गई।

    As the day wore on, it got hotter and hotter.

    Each clause has its own subject: masculine दिन, feminine गर्मी.

  2. ज्यों-ज्यों अभ्यास बढ़ता है, त्यों-त्यों काम आसान लगने लगता है।

    The more you practice, the easier the work starts to feel.

    Present habit forms state a general truth.

  3. ज्यों-ज्यों भीड़ कम हुई, त्यों-त्यों रास्ता खुलता गया।

    As the crowd thinned, the road gradually cleared.

    One thing decreases while the other grows.

  4. ज्यों-ज्यों हम ऊपर चढ़ते गए, त्यों-त्यों हवा ठंडी होती गई।

    The higher we climbed, the colder the air became.

    -ता जाना in both clauses shows two steady changes.

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ज्यों-ज्यों ... त्यों-त्योंLevel 6The More ... the More

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The more ... the more is a written version of जैसे-जैसे ... वैसे-वैसे.

Words in This Pattern

त्यों