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I'm currently practicing to use japanese adjectives by writing down sentences
with antonym pairs, and I came up with the following sentence.

"My room isn't dirty, but it isn't clean as well."

Unfortunately I find it difficult to find an appropiate grammatical structure
which can be used to translate this sentence. I have been looking around the
internet for a bit, but I can't seem to find a satisfactory answer. The
closest I got to an answer was
[this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/6623/how-to-say-also-or-
too) post, but it isn't really usable in this context. Can somebody help me to
find an suitable grammatical pattern for this particular sentence?
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How would you say "Something isn't X, but isn't Y as well."
A fancy way to say it could be :

> ...汚いわけではないけど、きれいでもないです。  
>  It's not that it's dirty, but it is not clean either.

A more simple way :

> ...きれいでもない、汚いでもない。  
>  It's neither clean nor dirty.
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There are some phrases. For example, "Aではないが、Bでもない", "Aではない、でもBでもない",
"AでもBでもない".

Your sentence is translated like "汚くないが、きれいでもない", "汚くない、でもきれいでもない",
"汚くもきれいでもない", etc.
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I would go with 「～ないけど、～でもない/～くもない」. Works in the majority of cases:

部屋はきれいじゃないけど、汚くもない。  
My room is not clean, but it isn't dirty either.

外はうるさくないけど、静かでもない。  
Outside is not loud, but it isn't quiet either.
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