In French, to express "more and more / less and less + [noun]", you use "de plus en plus de / de moins en moins de + [noun]".
How to use 'de plus en plus de' and 'de moins en moins de' to make comparisons in French
Look at these sentences:
J'ai de moins en moins de patience pour ces choses-là.I've got less and less patience for those things.
To express more and more [thing(s)] and less/fewer [thing(s)], you will use de plus en plus de [chose(s)] and de moins en moins de [chose(s)].
Remember that the last de becomes d' in front of a vowel or a mute h.
See also Better and better, worse and worse = de mieux en mieux, de pire en pire (Comparisons in French), De plus en plus / De moins en moins + [adverbe/adjectif/verbe] = more and more / less and less + [adverb/adjective/verb] (Comparisons in French) and Plus... plus..., moins... moins... = the more...the more..., the less...the less... (comparisons with phrases)
Here are other Comparative structures:
Plus ... que/Moins ... que/Aussi ... que = More ... than/Less ... than/As ... as (Comparisons with Adjectives in French)
Plus ... que/Moins ... que/Aussi ... que = More ... than/Less ... than/As ... as (Comparisons with Adverbs in French)
Plus que/Moins que/Autant que = More than/Less than/As much as (Comparisons with Verbs in French)
Plus de ... que/Moins de ... que/Autant de ... que = More ... than/Less ... than/As much/many ... as (Comparisons with Nouns in French)
And Superlative structures:
Le/la/les plus and Le/la/les moins = The most and the least (Superlative with Adjectives in French)
Le plus/Le moins = The most/the least (Superlative with Adverbs in French)
Forming the superlative of French adjectives in complex cases
Meilleur, mieux, pire / plus mauvais, plus mal = better, best, worse and worst in French (irregular comparatives and superlatives)
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