且つ
かつ
and; moreover
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Examples
安全且つ迅速に運ぶ。
あんぜんかつじんそくにはこぶ。
Transport it safely and quickly.
この方法は簡単且つ確実だ。
このほうほうはかんたんかつかくじつだ。
This method is simple and reliable.
二十歳以上、且つ本校の学生であること。
はたちいじょう、かつほんこうのがくせいであること。
Must be twenty or over, and also a student of this school.
Common patterns
- 安全且つ確実
- safe and certain
- A且つB
- both A and B
- 迅速且つ正確に
- quickly and accurately
Memory tip
且つ joins two qualities or conditions that must hold at the same time — it is the "AND" of a condition list, opposite to 又は. It typically links adjectives or clauses, not nouns.
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