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The simplest things seem to be the hardest.

I am exercising the "does not have to be" structure.

If I want to say "the book does not have to be expensive", it is (may be?):

> 本は高くなくてもいいです。

But how do I say "the book does not have to be expensive and big"?

I [asked this in chat and got a kind
answer](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/511/2015/3/11) from Xeo.

Xeo, thank you for your help and I hope I may quote you here:

> @saidy afaik, you generally connect adjectives with the て-form. So I'd wager
> it works here, too: 「本は高くなくて大きくなくてもいいです。」
>
> I may be totally wrong, though. Better wait until one of the gurus answer
> this :)

Is this the correct way to connect adjectives in this case?

Thank you for reading this far. Any help is appreciated.
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Connecting adjectives, "does not have to A and B"
No, the answer you got in chat is not quite right.

> 「[本]{ほん}は[高]{たか}くなくて[大]{おお}きくなくて **も** いいです。」

You would need to use 「も」 twice to make it grammatical. You could say:

> 「本は高くなくて **も** 、大きくなくて **も** いいです。」

The sentence is grammatical now, but it just does not sound very natural. As a
Japanese-speaker, I could **_not_** imagine someone saying this sentence in
real life. If it were a catch copy in advertisement (perhaps for e-books), it
would sound pretty natural.

You could also say something like:

> 「本は高い[必要]{ひつよう} **も** なければ、大きい必要 **も** ありません。」

Either way, you would need to use 「も」 twice. It is as though you would need to
use "n" twice in saying " **n** either A **n** or B".
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