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Translation

both

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Examples

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Both brothers work in the same town.

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I saw both letters.

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Both are right.

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He held the book with both hands.

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Both sides of the street are green.

never changes shape. It takes no -j and no -n, being one of the small closed set of words alongside and , but the noun it qualifies inflects as usual: . It means the two of them taken together; when you want each of the two considered separately, is the phrase. Note also that already implies "the", so is redundant and reads as a translation from German.

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This word is taught in chapter 3, lesson 9: ambaŭ, dormi, atingi and 7 more words.