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English
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Conjunction
neither … nor
- used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)
1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy; […] .
(Can we date this quote?), Hsun Lu, “The Grand Finale”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., Selected Stories of Lu Hsun: The True Story of Ah Q, and Other Stories, published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them could neither read nor write.
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used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas
- Arabic: لَا... وَلَا ... (lā... walā ...)
- Belarusian: ні … ні (ni … ni), ані́ ... ані́ (aní ... aní)
- Bulgarian: ни́то ... ни́то (níto ... níto), ни ... ни (ni ... ni)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不……也不…… (bù … yě bù …) (negative sentence)
- Czech: ani ... ani
- Dutch: noch ... noch
- Esperanto: nek ... nek
- Finnish: ei … eikä
- French: ni … ni
- German: weder … noch
- Greek:
- Ancient: μήτε … μήτε (mḗte … mḗte), οὔτε … οὔτε (oúte … oúte)
- Hungarian: sem…, sem…, se…, se…
- Italian: né … né
- Japanese: …もなくて…もない (… mo nakute … mo nai) (negative sentence, both parts)
- Korean: …도 아니고 …도 아니다 (…do anigo …do anida) (negative sentence, both parts), …도 않고 …도 않다 (…do anko …do anta) (negative sentence, both parts)
- Latin: neque … neque, nec … nec
- Macedonian: ни … ни (ni … ni), ниту … ниту (nitu … nitu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: verken ... eller, hverken ... eller
- Nynorsk: korkje ... eller, verken ... eller
- Polish: ani … ani
- Romanian: nici … nici
- Russian: ни … ни (ni … ni)
- Slovak: ani ... ani
- Spanish: ni ... ni
- Turkish: ne … ne
- Ukrainian: ні … ні (ni … ni), ані́ ... ані́ (aní ... aní)
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