so
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[edit] English
[edit] Abbreviation
S.O.
- Someone
- Significant other (romantic partner)
- Symphony orchestra
- (baseball) The statistic reporting the number of strikeouts recorded by a pitcher; K
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: sō, IPA: /səʊ/, SAMPA: /s@U/
- (US) IPA: /soʊ/, SAMPA: /soU/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -əʊ
- Homophones: sew, soh, sow
[edit] Etymology
From the Old English swā.
[edit] Conjunction
so
- In order that
- Eat your broccoli so you can have dessert.
[edit] Usage notes
When used as the conjunction in a conditional sentence, instead of the usual English word order in the apodosis, wh-movement is used instead. Eg:
- If he can run a marathon, so can you.
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[edit] Adverb
so (not comparable)
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Positive |
Superlative |
- Very.
- He is so good!
- It’s not so bad.
- To this or that extent.
- I need a piece of cloth so long.
- In this or that manner.
- Place the napkin on the table just so.
- (slang, chiefly US) Very much.
- But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!
- That is so not true!
[edit] Synonyms
- (very): really, truly, that, very
- (to this or that extent): that, this, yea
- (in this or that manner): like this, thus
- (slang: very much): really, truly, very much
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- Ido: tante
[edit] Adjective
so (comparative more so, superlative most so)
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Positive |
Comparative |
Superlative |
- true.
- That is so.
- You are responsible for this, is that not so?
- In that state, with that attribute. Replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- 1823, Andrew Reed, Martha
- If this separation was painful to all parties, it was most so to Martha.
- 1872, Charles Dickens, J., The Personal History of David Copperfield
- But if I had been more fit to be married, I might have made you more so too.
- 1823, Andrew Reed, Martha
- (dated British slang, euphemism) homosexual.
- Is he so?
[edit] Synonyms
- (true): correct, right, true
- (euphemistic: homosexual): musical, one of the family, one of them, that way inclined
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true See true.
[edit] Interjection
so
- An interjection after a pause for thought.
- So, let's go home.
- An interjection used to introduce a question.
- So, what'll you have?
- So what?
- "You park your car in front of my house every morning." "So?"
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[edit] Noun
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Singular |
Plural |
so (plural sos)
- (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
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[edit] Asturian
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so
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[edit] Basque
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so
[edit] Bosnian
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so f.
[edit] Catalan
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From sonus
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so
[edit] Danish
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse sýr, from Proto-Norse *sūʀ, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₁- (“‘swine’”).
[edit] Noun
so c. (singular definite soen, plural indefinite søer)
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so
[edit] German
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so
[edit] Italian
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so
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[edit] Japanese
[edit] Noun
so (hiragana そ)
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[edit] Cmavo
so (rafsi: soz)
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so
[edit] Serbian
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so f.
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[edit] Spanish
[edit] Etymology
From the Latin sub.
[edit] Preposition
so
[edit] Usage notes
So is very rare in modern Spanish, surviving only in certain expressions, including so pena de (on pain of, under penalty of), so pretexto de or so color de (under pretext of), a so capa (secretly, with bribery).
[edit] Pronoun
so
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Noun
so
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[edit] Inflection
| Inflection for so | Singular | Plural | ||
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| Common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Nominative | so | son | so | sorna |
| Genitive | sos | sons | sos | sornas |

