kanojo wa eigo mo nihongo mo hanaseru.

topic particle

Breakdown of kanojo wa eigo mo nihongo mo hanaseru.

• 日に本ほん語ご: Japanese (language)
• 英えい語ご: English (language)

Questions & Answers about kanojo wa eigo mo nihongo mo hanaseru.

Why is は used after 彼女?

は marks the topic of the sentence. It tells you what the sentence is about.

So 彼女は means something like:

• As for her...
• She...

It does not mean the same thing as an English subject marker exactly. It sets up 彼女 as the topic, and the rest of the sentence says something about her.

Why is も used twice?

Using も twice in a pattern like AもBも means both A and B.

So:

• 英語も日本語も = both English and Japanese

This is a very common pattern in Japanese. It can also carry the feeling of also, depending on context, but in a sentence like this the most natural understanding is both English and Japanese.

What exactly does も mean here? Is it also or both?

It is doing both jobs a little, but in this sentence the natural result is both.

Basic idea:

• も often means also / too
• but AもBも usually means both A and B

So even though も by itself often gets translated as also, this repeated pattern is best understood as:

• both English and Japanese

Why isn’t there a particle like を or after and ?