Breakdown of Plus nous avançons, plus je comprends le texte.
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It uses a very common French pattern: plus ..., plus ...
This pattern means the more ..., the more ... in English.
So the sentence is built like this:
- Plus nous avançons = The more we move forward / the further we go
- plus je comprends le texte = the more I understand the text
It is a comparative correlative structure: one thing increases, and another thing increases too.
Because French mirrors the English pattern the more ..., the more ...
The first plus introduces the first changing situation:
- Plus nous avançons = The more we progress
The second plus introduces the linked result:
- plus je comprends le texte = the more I understand the text
So both plus words are necessary in this structure.
Here, plus is not being used in a simple comparison such as more than X. Instead, it is part of the fixed pattern plus ..., plus ...