Meaning & usage
The particle も repeated after two nouns, as in 人もいれば人もいる, lists both items with emphasis, covering cases like 'both ~ and ~' or 'neither ~ nor ~'. It attaches directly to nouns (and to interrogatives like 何でも) to stress that the statement applies across the board.
Example sentences 8
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良書は最良の友であり、今日も今後も永久に同じである。
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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母は私の望むものは何でも言わなくてもかなえてくれる。
My mother anticipates all my desires.
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何でもかんでもメモをしますがあとで使い物になりません。
I note down absolutely everything, but they're no good to me afterwards.
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友人を迎えに来た人もいれば、見送りに来た人もいる。
Some have come to meet their friends and others to see theirs off.
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野球が好きな生徒もいれば、サッカーが好きな生徒もいる。
Some students like baseball, and others like soccer.
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末弟は悪くないかもしれない、けれど私も悪くない。
It mightn't have been my youngest brother's fault, but it wasn't mine either.
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来る日も来る日もその犬は主人を迎えに駅へ行った。
Day in, day out the dog went to the station to wait for its master.
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野球をしていると何もかも忘れることが多いのです。
Often I go crazy playing baseball.