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word neither
definition
conjunction
You use neither in front of the first of two or more words or expressions when you are linking two or more things which are not true or do not happen . The other thing is introduced by 'nor'.
Professor Hisamatsu spoke neither English nor German.
The play is neither as funny nor as disturbing as Tabori thinks it is.
If you say that one person or thing does not do something and neither does another, what you say is true of all the people or things that you are mentioning .
I never learned to swim and neither did they.
I don't have all the answers and neither do you.
You use neither after a negative statement to emphasize that you are introducing another negative statement.
I can't ever recall Dad hugging me. Neither did I sit on his knee.
determiner
You use neither to refer to each of two things or people, when you are making a negative statement that includes both of them.
At first, neither man could speak.
Neither of us felt like going out.
They both smiled; neither seemed likely to be aware of my absence for long.
cefr-level A2

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