ます – Vocabulary details

ます

Verb (5-dan, す, transitive)

1. to increase; to grow

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increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less

to increase (all the more)

to grow in severity; to grow increasingly severe

to extend (building); to build on

台たい風ふうが勢いきおいをました。

The typhoon gathered strength.

少しょう年ねん犯はん罪ざいはましつつある。

Juvenile delinquency is increasing.

彼かの女じょは日ひに日ひに美うつくしさをます。

She gets prettier day by day.

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