både och

Etymology
From. Perhaps from "både A och B" (both A and B), with options A and B.

Pronoun

 * 1) both, both of them (as opposed to just one of them (as might have been expected))

Usage notes

 * Stress on och.
 * More grammatically constrained compared to . "Både och Eva och Nisse var där" (Both and Eva and Nisse were there) is nonsense in Swedish as well.