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Swedish
Etymology
From både (“both”) + och (“and”). Perhaps from "både A och B" (both A and B), with options A and B.
Pronoun
både och
- both, both of them (as opposed to just one of them (as might have been expected))
– Är det där en bil eller en ubåt? – Det är både och!- – Is that a car or a submarine? – It's both!
– Åt ni pizza eller hamburgare? – Vi kunde inte bestämma oss, så det blev både och!- – Did you eat pizza or hamburgers? – We couldn't make up our minds, so we had both!
Pizza och hamburgare – vi åt både och igår- Pizza and hamburgers – we ate both of them yesterday
Usage notes
- Stress on och.
- More grammatically constrained compared to båda (“both”). "Både och Eva och Nisse var där" (Both and Eva and Nisse were there) is nonsense in Swedish as well.
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