Two も clauses and then です


When saying that someone or something is both this and that, is XもYもです
appropriate?

> 彼は画家も教師もです。

I ask both for written and spoken. I feel like the copula is already a である so
it should be something more akin to:

> 彼は画家(で)も教師でもあります。

Or something. But then that sounds formal or written-only.

As a non-beginner, this question is frankly a bit embarrassing to ask, as it's
so fundamental, but I feel like it was never really specifically covered.
Either that or getting used to reading more written form Japanese has messed
with my expectations.




You have to use で and say 彼は画家でも教師でもあります or 彼は画家であり教師でもあります, both in written
and spoken Japanese. If you want to make it shorter, you can say
彼は画家[[兼]{けん}](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%85%BC)教師です.

彼は画家も教師もです is almost always ungrammatical, but in a rare [unagi-
sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/44053/5010), it may make sense.

> みんなの将来の夢について。私は将来看護師になりたいです。佐藤君はサッカー選手です。田中君は画家も教師もです。




You have to use で and say 彼は画家でも教師でもあります or 彼は画家であり教師でもあります, both in written
and spoken Japanese. If you want to make it shorter, you can say
彼は画家[[兼]{けん}](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%85%BC)教師です.

彼は画家も教師もです is almost always ungrammatical, but in a rare [unagi-
sentence](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/44053/5010), it may make sense.

> みんなの将来の夢について。私は将来看護師になりたいです。佐藤君はサッカー選手です。田中君は画家も教師もです。

