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English
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Etymology
OE. nawþer, contraction of nahwæþer "not of two"1
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-neither.ogg|Audio (US), audio|en-us-neither-2.ogg|Audio (US)
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪð�(r)|-aɪð�(r), Rhymes:English:-i�ð�(r)|-i�ð�(r)
Adjective
Sometimes called a determiner<br>
neither
- not one of two; not either
#* neither definition seems correct
Translations
trans-top|not one of two; not either
Albanian: asnjë
Dutch: geen van beide
Finnish: ei kumpikaan
French: aucun des deux
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Italian: né
Portuguese: nenhum dos dois
Serbian: niti, ni
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Pronoun
neither
- not either one
#* because neither is correct
Translations
trans-top|not either one
German: keine
Hindi: à¤à¥� नहà¥�à¤�
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Italian: né
Portuguese: nenhum dos dois
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Conjunction
neither
- not either (used with nor)
#* neither I nor you like it
- also not
#* if you won�t correct it, neither will I
Translations
trans-top|not either (used with nor): neither X nor Y
Dutch: noch X noch Y; X noch Y
Finnish: ei X eikä Y
French: ni X ni Y
German: weder X noch Y
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trans-top|also not
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Danish: hverken
Italian: neanche, nemmeno
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Portuguese: nem
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Adverb
neither
- similarly not
#* just as you would not correct it, neither would I
Translations
trans-top|similarly not
Arabic: ��ا (wala)
Dutch: ook niet, evenmin
Finnish: eikä
French: non plus
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Italian: né
Spanish: tampoco
Portuguese: tampouco
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Usage notes
Neither is used to mean none of two or more. Although some suggest that using the word neither with more than two items is incorrect, it has been commonly used to refer to more than two subjects since the 17th century. The more modern usage does prefer none with more than two things.
There is considerable variation in regards to the number of the verb employed with this construction.
:* Examples:
::* "That woman was neither a collector nor an art critic, but she understood the meaning I meant to give that work." -- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcelle_Ferron Marcell Ferron
::* "Has anyone ever loved you so much that they tried to kill you, or perhaps sucked you down into a hole so that you had to kill them to get away? Yeah, me neither." --http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maynard_James_Keenan Maynard James Keenan
::* "You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work." -- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Golf Lee Trevino
::* "As if it were gold and could be neither good nor bad nor worth more nor worth less but must always be worth the same no matter what." --http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Miller_(novelist) Alex Miller
::*"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, <br>
:::Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; <br>
:::But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, <br>
:::When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!" http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling Rudyard Kipling
::*"Neither you, Simon, nor the fifty thousand, nor the Romans, nor the Jews, nor Judas, nor the twelve ,nor the priests, nor the scribes, nor doomed Jerusalem itself understand what power is, understand what glory is, understand at all." --http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar | Jesus Christ Superstar
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