English Dictionary

so

IPA（発音記号）

/səʊ/

接続詞

活用形 弱形 古語

Reduced form of 'so that', used to express purpose; in order that. / With the result that; for that reason; therefore. / Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.

日本語の意味

（‘so that’の短縮形として用いられ、目的を示す）～するために / その結果として、あるいはその理由により、ゆえに、だから / 会話や出来事と次の質問などをつなぐ接続詞として用いられる（それで、というわけで）

I left early so I could catch the first train.

始発の電車に間に合うように早めに家を出ました。

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

With the result that; for that reason; therefore.

Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.

意味（3）

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

So how does this story end?

意味（4）

Used to introduce a rhetorical 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.”

意味（5）

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

Speed. ‘Item: She doth talk in her sleep.’ Launce. It’s no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.