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[edit] English

[edit] Abbreviation

S.O.

  1. Significant other (romantic partner)
  2. Symphony orchestra
  3. (baseball) The statistic reporting the number of strikeouts recorded by a pitcher; K

[edit] Pronunciation

Homophones: sew, soh, sow

[edit] Etymology

From the Old English swā.

[edit] Conjunction

so

  1. 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.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Translations

in order that

[edit] Adverb

so (not comparable)

Positive
so

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)
  1. Very.
    He is so good!
    It’s not so bad.
  2. To this or that extent.
    I need a piece of cloth so long.
  3. In this or that manner.
    Place the napkin on the table just so.
  4. (slang, especially US) Very much.
    But I so want to see the Queen when she visits our town!
    That is so not true!

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Translations

very
to this or that extent
in this or that manner
slang: very much

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[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Adjective

so (not comparable)

Positive
so

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)
  1. true.
    That is so.
    You are responsible for this, is that not so?
  2. (dated UK slang, euphemism) homosexual.
    Is he so?

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Translations

true See true.


[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Interjection

so

  1. An interjection used to introduce a question.
    So, what'll you have?
  2. So what?
    "You park your car in front of my house every morning." "So?"
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[edit] Noun

Singular
so

Plural
sos

so (plural sos)

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

[edit] Basque

[edit] Noun

so

  1. look

[edit] Bosnian

[edit] Noun

so f.

  1. salt

[edit] Catalan

[edit] Etymology

From sonus

[edit] Noun

so

  1. sound

[edit] Faroese

[edit] Adverb

so

  1. so, thus, as
  2. then

[edit] German

[edit] Adverb

so

  1. so
    so nett — so nice
    nicht so gut — not so good, not that good
  2. as
    so gut wie — as good as

[edit] Italian

[edit] Verb form

so

  1. (I) know (first-person singular present tense of sapere)

[edit] Usage notes

io non so - I do not know

[edit] Lojban

[edit] Cmavo

so (rafsi: soz)

  1. nine

[edit] Romani

[edit] Adverb

so

  1. what

[edit] Serbian

[edit] Noun

so f.

  1. salt

[edit] Cyrillic spelling

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

From the Latin sub.

[edit] Preposition

so

  1. under

[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

  1. you (emphatic, derogatory)
    • ¡So tonto! — You blithering idiot!

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

so

  1. (rare) sow, female pig

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Inflection

Inflection for so Singular Plural
Common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative so son so sorna
Genitive sos sons sos sornas
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