so

so, like that/this, thus (in such a way)

From Dutch zo, from Middle Dutch sô, from Old Dutch sō, from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from a merger of Proto-Germanic *swa and *swē.


so

head

so m sg (feminine singular so, neuter singular so, masculine plural sos, feminine plural sos)

so (feminine singular)
so (neuter singular)
sos (masculine plural)
sos (feminine plural)


so

first-person singular present indicative of ser


so

(chiefly Northern) [with dative or allative] looking at


so

so (absolutive indefinite)
soa (absolutive indefinite singular)
soak (absolutive indefinite plural)
sok (ergative indefinite)
soak (ergative indefinite singular)
soek (ergative indefinite plural)
sori (dative indefinite)
soari (dative indefinite singular)
soei (dative indefinite plural)
soren (genitive indefinite)
soaren (genitive indefinite singular)
soen (genitive indefinite plural)
sorekin (comitative indefinite)
soarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
soekin (comitative indefinite plural)
sorengatik (causative indefinite)
soarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
soengatik (causative indefinite plural)
sorentzat (benefactive indefinite)
soarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
soentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
soz (indefinite instrumental)
soaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
soez (indefinite instrumental plural)
sotan (indefinite inessive)
soan (indefinite inessive singular)
soetan (indefinite inessive plural)
sotako (indefinite locative)
soko (indefinite locative singular)
soetako (indefinite locative plural)
sotara (allative indefinite)
sora (allative indefinite singular)
soetara (allative indefinite plural)
sotaraino (indefinite terminative)
soraino (indefinite singular terminative)
soetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
sotarantz (directive indefinite)
sorantz (directive indefinite singular)
soetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
sotarako (destinative indefinite)
sorako (destinative indefinite singular)
soetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
sotatik (ablative indefinite)
sotik (ablative indefinite singular)
soetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
sorik (indefinite partitive)
sotzat (indefinite prolative)


so

Inherited from Old Catalan so~son, from Latin sonus. Compare Occitan son, French son, Spanish sueno.


so

Back-formation from sons (plural). Compare Spanish sueño, Portuguese sono, from Latin somnus.


so

first-person singular present indicative of ésser


so

Va anar-hi amb so cotxe.

(Mallorca, Ibiza) Alternative form of es (“the”, masculine singular) (used after amb (“with”) and sometimes en (“in”), before a consonant)


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese) benefit; advantage; bargain; discount

From clipping of English jetso, from Cantonese 著數／着数 (zoek⁶ sou³).


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese) bargain; advantageous


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to respond; to pay attention to


so

(Hong Kong Cantonese, in compounds) Alternative form of soc (“society”)


so

From Vulgar Latin sum, from Latin suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos. Cognates include Italian suo and French son.


so

so c (singular definite soen, plural indefinite søer)

soen (definite singular)
søer (indefinite plural)
so (indefinite nominative singular)
soen (definite nominative singular)
søer (indefinite nominative plural)
søerne (definite nominative plural)
sos (genitive indefinite singular)
soens (definite genitive singular)
søers (genitive indefinite plural)
søernes (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse sýr, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *sū-.


so

From Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē. Cognate with Swedish så.


so

I got an earlier train to work so I'd have plenty of time to prepare for the meeting.

Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.

Reduced form of 'so that', used to express purpose; in order that.

I was hungry, so I asked if there was any more food.

He ate too much cake, so he fell ill.

He wanted a book, so he went to the library.

“I need to go to the bathroom.” ― “So go!”

With the result that; for that reason; therefore.

“Where were you born?” ― “So I was born in London.”

(informal) Used as a sentence-starting filler or introductory word with no particular meaning.

So how does this story end?

Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.

“We'd like to visit but I don't know if we can afford a hotel.” — “So who's staying in a hotel? Stay with us.”

Used to introduce a rhetorical question.

I went away very well satisfy’d, not caring where I was sent, so it was but out of his Sight; for he now became more my Aversion than ever.

1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, page 111

(archaic) Provided that; on condition that; as long as.

From Middle English so, swo, zuo, swa, swe, from Old English swā, swǣ, swē (“so, as, the same, such, that”), from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-European *swē, *swō (reflexive pronomial stem). Cognate with Scots sae (“so”), West Frisian sa (“so”), Low German so (“so”), Dutch zo (“so”), German so (“so”), Danish så (“so”), Norwegian Nynorsk so, Swedish så ("so, such that"), Old Latin suad (“so”), Albanian sa (“how much, so, as”), Ancient Greek ὡς (hōs, “as”), Urdu سو (sō, “hence”).


so

It was so hot outside that all the plants died.

He was so good, they hired him on the spot.

You behaviour so incensed me that I even thought of firing you.

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

I need a piece of cloth so long. [= this long]

There are only so many hours in a day.

I feel so much better now.

I so nearly lost my temper.

It’s not so bad. [i.e. it's acceptable]

But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!

I so wanted to be Jess Harley again.

1989, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5, Archie Comics

Yeah! Not eating is so 90’s!

2003 April 16, Michael Stokes, “I, Dude”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Clover (Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon

That is so not true!

Very much.
(informal) at all (negative clause).

Place the napkin on the table just so. If that's what you mean, then say so; (or do so).

1963, Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde (music and lyrics), Dusty Springfield (vocalist), I Only Want to Be with You (single),
Don′t know what it is that makes me love you so, / I only know I never want to let you go.

Just as you have the right to your free speech, so I have the right to mine.  Many people say she's the world's greatest athlete, but I don't think so.  "I can count backwards from one hundred." "So can I."

‘There're another two.’ ‘So there are.’

He wants to eat now. So does she.

The work thus done has probably been of the greatest value to the human race; but, just as in other cases it has sometimes happened that the effort to do a certain work has resulted in the end in an unbalanced exaggeration so here.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 192

It was a goal that meant West Ham won on their first appearance at Wembley in 31 years, in doing so becoming the first team since Leicester in 1996 to bounce straight back to the Premier League through the play-offs.

2012 May 19, Paul Fletcher, “Blackpool 1-2 West Ham”, in BBC Sport

it's okay to be different
'Cause baby, so am I

2019, Amanda Koci, Henry Walter, Charlie Puth, Maria Smith, Victor Thellm, Gigi Grombacher, Roland Spreckle (lyrics and music), “So Am I”, performed by Ava Max

In the same manner or to the same extent as aforementioned; likewise, also.

so far as;  so long as;  so much as

(with as): To such an extent or degree; as.

the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last

there are none so blind as those who will not see

there's none so blind as those who will not see


so

That is so.

You are responsible for this, is that not so?

The details of her own life crowded out everything else; almost every time I saw Min, she had something new to tell me. It sometimes felt as if the laws of the physical world did not apply to her, that she had only to think of something — a job switch, a breakup — to make it so. If I didn’t see her for a while, she might forget to tell me that she had quit a factory or gotten a raise, because in her mind she had already moved on.

2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 73

If this separation was painful to all parties, it was most so to Martha.

But if I had been more fit to be married, I might have made you more so too.

1872, Charles Dickens, “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

It must be understood that while the nelumbiums are hardy, they are so only as long as the tubers are out of the reach of frost.

1947, Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

adjective phrase
adjective phrase#English

In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.

Is he so?

en-adj

so (comparative more so, superlative most so)

more so (comparative)
most so (superlative)


so

So, let's go home.

So, what'll you have?

So, there was this squirrel stuck in the chimney...

So, everyone wants to know – did you win the contest or not?

Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.

"You park your car in front of my house every morning." — "So?"

Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.

What are you doing? / So I'm just fixing this shelf.

What time does the train leave? / So it leaves at 10 o'clock.

Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.

(archaic) Be as you are; stand still; used especially to cows; also used by sailors.

إِذاً

interjection used to introduce a new topic


so

(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.

Shortened from sol, to make it an open syllable for uniformity with the rest of the scale, from Glover's solmization, from Middle English sol (“fifth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian sol in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin solve (“wash away”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.


so

(foods) A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.


so

The name of the Latin-script letter S/s.

eo-head

so (accusative singular so-on, plural so-oj, accusative plural so-ojn)

so-on (accusative singular)
so-oj (plural)
so-ojn (accusative plural)

LL-Q143 (epo)-Robin van der Vliet-so.wav


so

From Old Norse svá, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē (“so”), from Proto-Indo-European *swē, *swō (reflexive pronomial stem).


so

(used attributively) his, her, its; of his, hers, its

(used substantively) his, hers, its; the thing belonging to him, her,it

head

so (third-person singular possessive of masculine singular, of feminine singular sô, of masculine plural siei, of feminine plural sôs)

sô (feminine nominative singular)
siei (masculine nominative plural)
sôs (feminine nominative plural)


so

From Old Galician-Portuguese so, su, sob, from Latin sub.


so

Die Leute sind so nett.

Dieser Hammer ist nicht so gut.

Das ist so eine gute Idee!

so und so

Er rennt so schnell wie der Blitz.

as (followed by an adjective or adverb plus wie in a statement of equality)

Wenn du den Ball so wirfst, triffst du die Zielscheibe.

If you throw the ball like this, you'll hit the target.

thus, like this/that, in this/that way, in this/that manner

Wirst du wieder gesund, so freue ich mich.

If you get healthy again, then I'll be happy.

Wir sind runtergegangen und haben uns hier so hingesetzt.

We went downstairs and, like, sat down here.

(colloquial) expletive; sometimes intensifying, sometimes with no noticeable meaning

From Middle High German sō, from Old High German sō, from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa, *swē, compare with Old Dutch so and Dutch zo.


so

Im Einzelnen ist die Abgrenzung zwischen Bekenntnisfreiheit und Religionsausübungsfreiheit unsicher. So kann etwa die religiöse Kleidung auch der Religionsausübungsfreiheit zugeordnet werden.

2018, Gerhard Czermak, Eric Hilgendorf, Religions- und Weltanschauungsrecht. Eine Einführung, 2nd edition, Springer, →DOI, § 7 Individuelle Religions- und Weltanschauungsfreiheit Rn. 130, page 68

In detail the difference between freedom of confessing and freedom of practicing religion is insecure. Thus for instance, religious clothing can be assigned to the freedom of practicing religion as well.

(coordinating) thus, so, pursuant to the aforementioned premises

So es Euch beliebt.

(subordinating, chiefly archaic, sometimes law and regional) an, if


so

Ich so: "Mach mal dalli!", und er dann so: "Ich bin ja schon dabei!"

I was like, "Hurry up!" and he was like, "I'm already on it!"

Ich dachte mir nur so: "Ja komm, lass stecken."

All I thought to myself [at that moment] was, "Yeah whatever, forget about it."

Und er so wie aus heiterem Himmel so: Momentchen, da läuft doch Hip-Hop!
Und ich so: Ja, das ist richtig!
Und er so: Biste auch Rapper?
Und ich so: Ja, so Hobby

1998, “Ich so, Er so”, Dendemann (lyrics), performed by Eins Zwo

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Und der Typ so original so: Oh welch ein Zufall, das bin ich nämlich auch!

Besonders überzeugt hatte mich dieser Moment meines Dates: „Ich habe gesagt: Ich weiß nicht, ob ich mich gerade bereit für Sex fühle. Da lag ich schon halb nackt in seinem Bett. Und er so: Cool, dann können wir ja einfach knutschen und kuscheln!“

2022 May 16, Lou Zucker, “Erwartungen beim Dating: Mehr als das Minimum”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN

(colloquial) quotative particle, somewhat similar to be like but also combinable with other verbs


so

Derhalben sind die Christen schuldig, der Obrigkeit unterthan […] zu seyn in Allem, so ohne Sünde geschehen mag.
That do the Christians owe: to be obedient to the authority […] in all that may be done without sin.
(Augsburger Bekenntnis)


so

So, das sind die Entscheidungen der größten Gelehrten über die doch nicht ganz unwichtige Frage, wie eine der Sprachen auszusprechen sei, in der jahraus jahrein in Deutschland gutgezählte 50 000 junge Menschenkinder unterrichtet werden.

1887, Eduard Engel, Griechische Frühlingstage, 4th, purer edition, Radebeul bei Dresden: Haupt & Hammon, published 1927, page 361

So these are the reckonings of the greatest scholars about the not quite insignificant question how one of the languages which is taught to about 50 000 young lads per annum should be pronounced.
In spite of these reckonings by far it is not to think that this buffoonery of an utterly wrong pronunciation of Greek would come to an end. The litherness in this field of schooling will last as long as in many others; for convenient it is forsooth, but scientific it is not, and devoid of use for life ’tis on top. The elimination of this litherness I will not be an observer of in my lifetime, even if Plato himself were to rise from his ashes and teach the pedants the right pronunciation. They would shew him his being at fault: he surely has forgot the right pronunciation; but them, the senior and head teachers know it very well; it would be literally like the New High German of the 20th century.

Trotz jenen Entscheidungen ist natürlich noch lange nicht daran zu denken, daß dem Unfug einer als gänzlich falsch erkannten Aussprache des Griechischen ein Ende gesetzt wäre. Der Schlendrian wird auf diesem Gebiete des Schulwesens wohl ebenso lange dauern, wie auf vielen andern; denn bequem ist allerdings jener Schlendrian, nur wissenschaftlich ist er nicht, und unbrauchbar für das Leben ist er obendrein. Die Beseitigung des Schlendrians werde ich wohl nicht mehr erleben, auch dann nicht, wenn Plato selber aus der Asche auferstünde und die deutschen Schulmänner die richtige Aussprache lehrte. Sie würden ihm beweisen, daß er sich irre: er habe in den mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden seit seinem Tode gewiß die richtige Aussprache vergessen; sie aber, die deutschen Oberlehrer und Direktoren, kennten sie ganz genau: sie wäre buchstäblich so wie das Neuhochdeutsche des 20. Jahrhunderts gewesen.

discourse marker
discourse marker#English

(colloquial) a discourse marker in the beginning of a sentence indicating a topic having been dealt with and another being tackled


so

Munster form of seo (used after a word ending in a velarized ("broad") consonant)


so

Non lo so.

Lo so io!

first-person singular present indicative of sapere (“I know”)


so

Wa mek unu kip dis-ya ruum so chaka-chaka?


so

yaso

deso


so

The hiragana syllable そ (so) or the katakana syllable ソ (so) in Hepburn romanization.


so

first-person singular present indicative of ser


so

second-person singular imperative of soen


so

From Old Dutch sō, from Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa.


so

Dutch: zo

Limburgish: zoe, zoea


so

(chiefly Flemish) Alternative form of si (“she”)


so

English: so

Geordie English: se

Scots: sae

Yola: zo, zoo, sae

From Old English swā, from Proto-West Germanic *swā.


so

(chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of sche


so

Dei seier so.

Eg visste ikkje at dei skulle vera so mange.

I didn't know that they were going to be that many.

So vidt eg veit.

Eg gjekk på kino. So gjekk eg heim.

From Middle Norwegian so, svo, from Old Norse svá, from Proto-Indo-European *swa. Akin to English so.


so

Eg barberte meg, so ho skulle synast eg var fin.

I shaved so that she would think I looked nice.


so

so (feminine sa, masculine plural sos, feminine plural sas)

sa (feminine)
sos (masculine plural)
sas (feminine plural)


so

desctree

Middle Dutch: sô
Dutch: zo
Limburgish: zoe, zoea

From Proto-West Germanic *swā, from Proto-Germanic *swa.


so

ind epistil so

this (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)

Irish: seo

Scottish Gaelic: seo

Manx: shoh

From Proto-Celtic *so (“this”), from Proto-Indo-European *só.


so

masculine nominative singular of ta (“that”)


so

head

so (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling سوۡ)

From Sanskrit स ; सो (sa ; so, “nom.sg.masc pron. and pronom. adj. he, that”).


so

desctree

Old Irish: so, sa, se, sea, seo, siu
Irish: seo
Scottish Gaelic: seo
Manx: shoh

Gaulish: so


so

Bats: სო (so)

Vainakh:

Chechen: со (so)

Ingush: со (so)


so

first-person singular present indicative of ësar (“to be”)


so

So kerel lesqo papu?


so

só (canonical class-1a)
bāsó (class-2a plural)


so

first-person singular present indicative of èssere


so

sȏ (canonical feminine)
со̑ (Cyrillic)
so (nominative singular)
sol (nominative singular)
soli (nominative plural)
soli (genitive singular)
soli (genitive plural)
soli (dative singular)
solima (dative plural)
so (accusative singular)
sol (accusative singular)
soli (accusative plural)
soli (singular vocative)
soli (plural vocative)
soli (locative singular)
solima (locative plural)
solju (instrumental singular)
soli (instrumental singular)
solima (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *solь, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ls.


so

so (nominative singular)
sola (nominative plural)
sola (genitive singular)
sol (genitive plural)
soli (genitive plural)
solu (dative singular)
solami (dative plural)
soli (dative plural)
so (accusative singular)
sola (accusative plural)
solu (locative singular)
sola (locative plural)
solom (instrumental singular)
solam (instrumental singular)
solami (instrumental plural)
soli (instrumental plural)


so

„Tak vy ste, Maco, celkom spokojný so službou a plácou?“

“So, Maco, you are rather satisfied with the service and the wage, aren’t you?”


so

Inherited from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo.


so

¡So tonto!

¡So borrachos!


so

(US, Puerto Rico, Philippines, El Salvador) so


so

so (indefinite nominative singular)
son (definite nominative singular)
sor (indefinite nominative plural)
sorna (definite nominative plural)
sos (genitive indefinite singular)
sons (definite genitive singular)
sors (genitive indefinite plural)
sornas (definite genitive plural)

From Old Swedish sō (Old Icelandic/Norwegian sýr), from Old East Norse *sōʀ, from Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *sū-. Compare the identical ko (Old Icelandic/Norwegian kýr, Old Swedish kō).


so

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Somali.


so

so (nominative singular)
sod (nominative plural)
son (accusative singular)
sod (accusative plural)
son (genitive singular)
soiden (genitive plural)
sod (partitive singular)
soid (partitive plural)
son (essive-instructive singular)
soin (essive-instructive plural)
soks (singular translative)
soikš (plural translative)
sos (inessive singular)
soiš (inessive plural)
sospäi (elative singular)
soišpäi (elative plural)
soho (illative singular)
soihe (illative plural)
sol (adessive singular)
soil (adessive plural)
solpäi (ablative singular)
soilpäi (ablative plural)
sole (allative singular)
soile (allative plural)
sota (abessive singular)
soita (abessive plural)
sonke (comitative singular)
soidenke (comitative plural)
sodme (prolative singular)
soidme (plural prolative)
sonno (approximative approximative-i singular)
soidenno (approximative approximative-i plural)
sonnoks (approximative approximative-ii singular)
soidennoks (approximative approximative-ii plural)
sonnopäi (egressive singular)
soidennopäi (egressive plural)
sohosai (singular terminative terminative-i)
soihesai (plural terminative terminative-i)
solesai (singular terminative terminative-ii)
soilesai (plural terminative terminative-ii)
sossai (singular terminative terminative-iii)
sohopäi (additive additive-i singular)
soihepäi (additive additive-i plural)
solepäi (additive additive-ii singular)
soilepäi (additive additive-ii plural)


so

So với bạn thì nó cao hơn.

so đũa

(intransitive) To straighten one's shoulders, as if to compare one's height to another's.


so

con so

chửa con so

trứng gà so

a chicken's first egg (usually a small egg)


so

mangrove horseshoe crab (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda)


so

second/third-person singular present negative colloquial

first/second/third-person plural present negative colloquial

So fe’n credu.
He doesn’t think so.


so

To stand (to be in a standing position).