grammar → 連…都…
TSUMUGU · TBCL 4 (est.) · 語法
連…都… grammar point · tier 2 · 連…都… even
Even: the hardest case is included, so the rest follow.

字源 FORM what the parts do

連 points at the hardest case; 都 sweeps it in with all the rest.

故事 STORY a scene to remember it by

Even the youngest child in the room has the joke.
自撰記憶法
框 · Frame
連 [extreme case] 都 [predicate]
例 · Examples
1連小孩都懂。
Even a child understands.
族 · Family
別說…（連）…也…Concede a strong case with 別說, then top it: 連…也 names an even more surprising one that still holds.更別說…了Grants a mild case to make an extreme case follow without stating it: X already holds at the weak end, so it holds all the more at the named harder end.一…都/也+不/沒…Emphatic total negation: not even the single smallest case holds, so none of the set does.