"des" meaning in Esperanto

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      "expansion": "German desto",
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  "etymology_text": "From Swedish and German desto.",
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  "lang_code": "eo",
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          "english": "The more I learn, the more I know.",
          "text": "Ju pli mi lernas, des pli mi scias.",
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          "english": "The more we study the flowers, the more we establish that many of them possess unexpected abilities, which in an animal we would willingly call instinct or even foresight.\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1903, Ben Elmy, “La Lingvo de la floroj”, in The Esperantist: The Esperanto Gazette for the Spreading of the International Language, page 138",
          "text": "Ju pli ni studas la florojn, des pli ni konstatas, ke multe da ili posedas nesuspektitajn lertecojn, kiujn apud besto ni volonte nomus instinkto aŭ еĉ prudento.",
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        "the; used with ju and either pli (“more”) or malpli (“less”) to form the second half of a coordinated comparative."
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          "pli",
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      "ipa": "[des]"
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  "word": "des"
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          "english": "The more I learn, the more I know.",
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          "text": "Ju pli ni studas la florojn, des pli ni konstatas, ke multe da ili posedas nesuspektitajn lertecojn, kiujn apud besto ni volonte nomus instinkto aŭ еĉ prudento.",
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