- A. 샌디씨 ? 다른 반 애들이랑 같이 비치에 안 가요?
Sandy, aren’t you going to the beach with the other kids in the class?
B. 못 가요. 돈도 시간도 없습니다.
I can’t go ? I have neither the time nor the money. - 오빠는 술집에도, 다방에도 안 다닙니다.
My brother doesn’t frequent either bars or tabangs.
As you know, the particle 도 often occurs twice in a sentence, showing a kind of tandem agreement between noun phrases (both A and B do. . .; neither X nor Y does. . .). In affirmative sentences, the 도 mean both. . . and; when the verb is negative, they mean neither. . . nor. The literal wordings both. . .and and neither. . .nor are actually somewhat formal in English, and in conversational style some other phraseology is more usual.
Notice that the phrases with 도 must agree with each other ? that is, you are saying the same thing about both of them. To say different things about two noun expressions, you do not use 도:
- 딸은 똑똑하지만 아들은 똑똑하지 못 합니다.
The daughter is bright, but the son isn’t bright at all.