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How are adjectival pronouns declined when nouns of multiple genders follow? For example:

Jede/Jeden Höcker und Kurve in der Straße.

The nouns Höcker und Kurve are of different genders (masculine and feminine respectively) - but then, does the use of two nouns also make it a plural? How is Jede declined in this case?

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You need two of them:

Jeder Höcker und jede Kurve in der Straße.
Jeder/Jede Höcker/Kurve in der Straße.

Normally, two nouns would make it plural. However, there is an exception when using jede, keiner, mancher. The verb that follows then requires the singular form: See here

Jeder Höcker und jede Kurve in dieser Straße führt dazu, dass man ständig abbremsen muss.
Every bump and every turn on this read cause you to break all the time.

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  • Somehow, that phrase does not have an adjectival pronoun followed by multiple nouns, unless there's some higher order syntax underlying that is expressed in your second variant, which is not colloquial at all, only written in technical writing.
    – vectory
    Commented Jul 3, 2019 at 20:38
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How are adjectival pronouns declined when nouns of multiple genders follow

Not at all! The word "alle" is used in that case, and it is not declinable for gender.

Alle Höcker and Kurven.

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