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( Ever so far, for any distance. Doko* made- mo -
,, j 2 -5 ( Ever so long, forever.
Itsu' made' ,no ] (/ft _ evn! til ,f ' when ,.)
MO.
102. Mo means even" "also," u and," " too." When repeated, mo ......... mo means " both ......... and " :
T , , (lit. even till when, i.e.
| forever. (See top of page.)
Watakushi mo mairimasu. I will go too.
. mustn>t
ikemasen. (this either.
(it) can't-go. )
Ka mo nomi mo It is a place where there
.Jlosqnitocs also, fleas also, are plenty both of mOS-
tokoro desu. 1 quitoes and of fleas.
numerous place t*. ; n
Construed with a negative verb, mo ......... mo means
"neither ......... nor," thus:
Yoku mo waruku mo nai. fit is neither good nor
Good also, bad also is-itol. (bad.
Mo is sometimes placed after ka, when the latter means "perhaps" (see p. 60.). It retains in Japanese some- thing of its proper force of "even," but can hardly be represented in the English translation, thus :
Mat a rai-nen kuru ka
ttfftiai comiiiff-year come ?
mo shiremasen.
even cannot-knotr.
Perhaps I may come again next year.
