vis + comparative
More and More with Vis
Put vis in front of a comparative to say that something keeps changing in one direction: vis šilčiau (warmer and warmer), vis geriau (better and better), vis daugiau (more and more).
How It Works
With adverbs
Adverbs in -iau describe how something happens or how things feel: Darosi vis šilčiau. (It is getting warmer and warmer.) Jam sekasi vis geriau. (He is doing better and better.) See Comparing Adverbs.
With adjectives
A comparative adjective still agrees with its noun: Miestas darosi vis gražesnis. (The city is getting more and more beautiful.) Kainos darosi vis didesnės. (Prices are getting higher and higher.) See Comparative Adjectives.
With daugiau and mažiau
These quantity words take the genitive: Vis daugiau žmonių mokosi lietuvių kalbos. (More and more people are learning Lithuanian.) See Genitive After Quantity Words.
Verbs that often go with it
darytis (to become, to get), tapti (to become), sektis (to go well), kalbėti and other verbs of doing: Lietuviškai kalbu vis drąsiau. (I speak Lithuanian more and more confidently.)
Vis with -yn words
Vis also goes with adverbs of direction or change in -yn: Viskas eina vis geryn. (Everything keeps getting better.) See Upward, Downward and Forward.
Other meanings of vis
Vis has other uses too, including vis dar (still) and vis tiek (anyway). See Nevertheless and Anyway.
Examples (6)
- Darosi vis šilčiau.
It is getting warmer and warmer.
Word by Word: Is-getting ever warmer.
- Jam sekasi vis geriau.
He is doing better and better.
Word by Word: To-him goes ever better.
- Miestas darosi vis gražesnis.
The city is getting more and more beautiful.
Word by Word: City is-becoming ever more-beautiful.
Gražesnis agrees with the masculine noun miestas.
- Kainos darosi vis didesnės.
Prices are getting higher and higher.
Word by Word: Prices are-becoming ever bigger.
- Vis daugiau žmonių mokosi lietuvių kalbos.
More and more people are learning Lithuanian.
Word by Word: Ever more of-people learn of-Lithuanian language.
Daugiau takes the genitive plural žmonių.
- Lietuviškai kalbu vis drąsiau.
I speak Lithuanian more and more confidently.
Word by Word: In-Lithuanian I-speak ever more-boldly.
Common Mistakes
Using the basic form instead of the comparative.
Darosi vis šilta.Darosi vis šilčiau.Vis needs a comparative to mean more and more, so šilta becomes šilčiau.
Forgetting that a comparative adjective agrees with its noun.
Kainos darosi vis didesnis.Kainos darosi vis didesnės.Kainos is feminine plural, so the adjective must be didesnės.
Using the nominative after daugiau.
Vis daugiau žmonės mokosi lietuvių kalbos.Vis daugiau žmonių mokosi lietuvių kalbos.Daugiau is a quantity word, so the noun after it goes into the genitive: žmonių.
How It Connects
Learn This First
Vis with a comparative expresses increasing degree.
Related Patterns
- Comparative -esnisComparative Adjectives
The comparative adjectives that vis combines with, such as gražesnis.
Level 3 - kuo ..., tuo ...The More ..., The More ...
Another way to talk about growing change: the more one thing grows, the more another does.
Level 4 - Genitive After Quantity Words
Vis daugiau and vis mažiau take the genitive like other quantity words.
Level 2 - aukštyn / žemyn / pirmynUpward, Downward and Forward
Vis also combines with -yn adverbs of direction or change, as in vis geryn.
Level 3 - vis dėlto / vis tiekNevertheless and Anyway
Fixed phrases where vis has a different meaning: nevertheless and anyway.
Level 4
Words in This Pattern
Practice vis + comparative in Bubblegum
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