Questions on Beginners Lessons

[Joey]

In lesson 76, the word ryouhou is explained as meaning both with the sentence from the lesson being "anata ni wa ryouhou tomo arimasen."
My question is what does the tomo mean after ryouhou?
Thanks in advance.

[Mikedie]

hmm i'm not this good in japanese but i'm pretty sure "tomo" means something like "all/both/with/together". in sentences with a negative
verb it means something like "neither".
tomo is set after a number or numberword (like "ryouhou")
so in this case "ryouhou tomo" means "both" or "both of them"

correct me if i'm wrong :>

[Joey]

Thanks for the explanation Mikedie-san!

i'm still just a little unclear about it though. Because if ryouhou means both and tomo means both how come you need both? (thats a lot of boths)
i.e. why couldn't you just say something like this:
"anata ni wa ryouhou ga nai"?

[Mikedie]

you can also say:"all both of them" or "all two of them".
tomo also means "all".

[Joey]

thanks again!
so the tomo stresses the "both" of ryouhou.

[jkeyz15]

yes it doesn't mean all litterally but it like stresses the ryouhou