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[grizzled canopy]

Please be patient

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[foggy rampart]

The second one ! This sentence means that young girls are starting to wear/use makeup at a younger and younger age.

[lyric apex]

This. If it were "to be younger and younger", we'd say "pour faire/paraître de plus en plus jeunes".

[stable mountain]

What does the sentence literally translate to? "The young girls are making up their faces younger and younger"? I don't know how to incorporate the phrase "de plus en plus jeunes" into the sentence unless the phrase means "at a younger age" exclusively

[stable mountain]

Yes, the second meaning makes more sense to me

[stable mountain]

Nvm, I think I understand it, it is an adverbial phrase

Am I right to say "jeune" is an adverb here and it is modified by "de plus en plus"?

[potent relic]

"putting on make up" is a way more natural way to say it in english

[lyric apex]

Jeune here is an adjective which pretty much acts as an adverb but it doesn't modify the verb, it simply describes the girls putting on make-up, hence the agreement.

[stable mountain]

I agree, it indeed agrees, but there is no « être », could this sentence possibly have been cut off somewhere?

[potent relic]

it's just like in english

younger and younger

no need for a copula

[stable mountain]

just like "die young"? 😂

[potent relic]

sure

[stable mountain]

I just realized I've never learnt about this in English

time to read some books