How to say "the more... the more..." in Turkish

In this lesson, I will explain how to apply the grammar rules in Turkish to make sentences like "the more... the more...", "the more... the less..." in English.

1) Simple Present Tense, "You" Form as a General Statement
"The more you study, the less you make mistakes"
1. Daha çok çalıştıkça, daha az hata yaparsın.
2. Çalıştıkça daha az hata yaparsın.
3. Ne kadar çok çalışırsan, o kadar az hata yaparsın. *

The other two have similar meanings but when we make a statement like this, we use the third option.
Likewise;
The less you study, the more you make mistakes.
Ne kadar az çalışırsan, o kadar çok hata yaparsın.

2) Other Sentences
If it is not a general statement but the subject is "particular" then,
we can not use the third option but the first or second, and usually the second if the sentence starts with "the more". If it starts with "the less", then we have to say "daha az".

The first part is same for any tense or subject. That means, you always add -çe or -ça to verb of the first sentence like we did above in the first and the second sentence.


this is the general formula: tanı-mak -> tanıdık (we knew) + ça
after dık,duk you add ça
after dik,dük you add çe


Example 1
Seni daha çok tanıdıkça, daha iyi anlıyorum.
The more I know you, the better I understand.
(As I know you more, I understand better)
- tanımak: to get to know, to know someone

Example 2
Daha az/Az para harcadıkça daha çok yatırım yapabilirsin.
The less you spend money, the more you can do investment.

Example 3
Daha çok konuştukça, daha çok öğreneceksin.
The more you speak, the more you will learn.

Example 4
Daha çok okudukça, daha çok anladı.
The more he read, the more he understood.


This is also how we make sentences like, 
As he read more, he understood better.
Okudukça daha iyi anladı.
As I met more people, I became more popular.
Daha çok kişiyle tanıştıkça, daha popüler oldum.

The similarity is that we use the same verb for the first part of the sentence.

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