egyre

Egyre is a Hungarian adverb meaning more and more or increasingly. It functions to intensify an adjective or another adverb and signals a progressive rise in degree within a clause. The word is standard in Hungarian and appears in everyday speech as well as in formal writing.

Typically egyre precedes the word it modifies, especially before the comparative form. Common usages include phrases like: a helyzet egyre rosszabb (the situation is getting worse), az autók egyre gyorsabban haladnak (the cars are moving faster and faster), egyre több ember érkezik (more and more people are arriving), and a diákok egyre jobban teljesítenek (the students are doing better and better). It can also start a sentence for emphasis: egyre többen hallanak a témáról (more and more people hear about the topic).

Etymology wise, egyre is a native Hungarian adverb and is widely regarded as a fixed particle in modern usage. It does not inflect and remains the same across different grammatical contexts, though it commonly co-occurs with comparative forms to express increasing intensity.

In translation, egyre corresponds to the English “more and more” or “increasingly.” It is versatile across registers, from journalism to literary prose, and frequently pairs with a variety of adjectives and adverbs to convey gradual escalation. Related constructions include egyre gyakrabban (more and more often) and egyre kevesebben (more and more people in the negative sense or fewer and fewer, depending on context).