Learn Spanish (Spain): La economía global es cada vez más importante. - The global economy is increasingly important.

La economía global es cada vez más importante.

The global economy is increasingly important.

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Questions & Answers about La economía global es cada vez más importante.

What is the literal translation of cada vez más, and can I just say más y más instead?

Literally, it means "each time more". While Spanish speakers do sometimes use más y más, cada vez más is the standard, most natural way to express "increasingly" or "more and more" with an adjective like importante.

Why do we use es instead of está here? Doesn't "increasingly" imply a changing state?

This is a common trap! Even though the level of importance is changing, the adjective importante describes a core quality or defining characteristic of the economy. Because it describes a characteristic and not a temporary physical condition or location, we use ser (es) rather than estar.

Does the phrase cada vez más change if the subject is plural?

No, cada vez más is a fixed phrase, so it never changes for gender or number. If we were talking about plural economies, only the verb and the adjective would change: Las economías globales son cada vez más importantes.

How would I change this sentence to say the global economy is "increasingly less important"?

You would just replace más with menos to form the opposite progressive comparison. The sentence would become: La economía global es cada vez menos importante.