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If there are more than two co-functioning elements, kaj is normally inserted between the penultimate and the last. But, for particular emphasis, it is repeated before each element:
Kaj mia fratino kaj mia amiko loĝas eksterlande.
Both my sister and my friend live abroad.
Mi amas kaj mian patrinon kaj patron.
I love both my mother and father.
When the same particle or adverb is repeated on each side of kaj, the word in question acquires a nuance of continuation or intensification:
↑ 1.01.11.2Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kaj”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132a
↑ 2.02.12.2Michael Beníšek (2020 August) “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 32-33
^ Marcel Courthiade (2009) “kaj”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 184a