～につれて: “Along with X"

Introduction

As your Japanese grammar knowledge grows, so does your ability to watch your favorite anime without subtitles!

Today's lesson is going to be all about making sentences just like this, but in Japanese!

～につれて: As X happens, Y happens

構成こうせい

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  Casual (dictionary form) verbにつれて

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  Nounにつれて

  Example:
  → 大人おとなになるにつれて、お金かねの大切たいせつさがわかるようになってきた。
  "As I become an adult, I've come to understand the importance of money.”

A fairly formal piece of grammar, ～につれて is a combination of the に particle, and the て form of the verb 連つれる, "to be accompanied by". Luckily for us, "to be accompanied by" is pretty much exactly what this grammar point means as well.