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且つ

かつ

and; moreover

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Examples

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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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