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HSK 3 Connectors & compound sentences

又 … 又 …

Both… and… (又…又…)

Structure 又 + quality 1 + 又 + quality 2

又…又… (yòu… yòu…) puts together two qualities or actions present at once in the same thing: 这个菜又便宜又好吃 = "this dish is both cheap AND tasty". Each 又 goes before an adjective or verb. It usually adds traits of the same sign (both good or both bad).

Examples

  • zhègecàiyòu便piányiyòuhǎochī

    This dish is both cheap and tasty.

  • yòugāoyòushuài

    He’s both tall and handsome.

  • yòulèiyòu饿è

    I’m both tired and hungry.

Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.

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