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Estoy cada vez más ansioso por las notificaciones del celular.

Estoy cada vez más ansioso por las notificaciones del celular.
I get more and more anxious because of the cell phone notifications.
From Lesson 248:Gradual comparison (cada vez más, cada vez menos)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Estoy cada vez más ansioso por las notificaciones del celular.

Why does the Spanish sentence use cada vez más instead of just saying más y más?
While English says 'more and more', Spanish uses the phrase cada vez más, which literally translates to 'each time more'. This is the most natural and standard way to express a gradual increase or something happening 'increasingly' in Spanish.
If a woman is speaking, does the phrase cada vez más change?
The phrase cada vez más stays exactly the same, but the adjective that comes after it must match the speaker! A woman would change the masculine adjective ansioso to the feminine ansiosa and say estoy cada vez más ansiosa.
Why use estoy (estar) instead of soy (ser) for this sentence?
We use estoy because anxiety (ansioso) is an emotion or a temporary state of mind, which is a classic trigger for estar. If you said soy ansioso, it would mean 'I am an anxious person' (a permanent personality trait), which doesn't fit well with a changing reaction to cell phone notifications.
Why is it por las notificaciones instead of para las notificaciones?
In Spanish, we use por to express the cause or reason for something. Here, it basically means 'because of'. The notifications are the cause of the anxiety, so we use por.

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