neither … nor

English[edit]

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^[1], published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:
  Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them could neither read nor write.

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)