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"so" in Dutch

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Summary

The Dutch translation for “so” is zo.

Pronounced the same

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so; therefore dus

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so that zodat

Examples of "so" in use

There are 103 examples of the Dutch word for "so" being used:
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I had no idea that you could cook so well. Ik wist niet dat je zo goed kon koken.
Why is everyone so excited? Waarom is iedereen zo opgewonden?
We shouldn’t make fun of him so often. We zouden niet zo vaak de draak met hem moeten steken.
We were so excited that we couldn’t sit still. We waren zo opgewonden dat we niet stil konden zitten.
She laid good eggs, and the woman loved her as if she had been her own child. Zij legde heerlijke eieren, en de vrouw had haar zo lief, alsof zij haar kind was.
Now the tomcat was the master of the house, and the hen was mistress, and they always said, “We and the world,” En de kater was heer in huis, en de kip was er zo goed als vrouw, en altijd zeiden zij: «Wij en de wereld!»
He’s so generous. Hij is zo gul.
Tom isn’t very generous. Tom is niet zo gul.
Oh, it was so beautiful here, so wonderful. O, hier was het zo schoon, zo heerlijk.
You can’t address me like that. Je kunt me zo niet aanspreken.

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a branch that was as thick as a python,
A lie has no legs.,
Am I that transparent?,
Am I that transparent?,
And she lit all the matches in the box, for she wished to keep her grandmother with her.,
And so it stayed motionless, while the hail whirled through the reeds and one shot after another banged,
and so the duckling was allowed to remain on trial for three weeks,
And so the duckling went away,
And so they went to the duck cage.,
And so they were as good as home.,
as soon as possible,
As they climbed higher and higher in the air, the ugly little duckling felt wonderfully weary,
But the poor duckling that had hatched last and looked so ugly was bitten, bumped and fooled by both the ducks and the chickens.,
But they will kill me, because I, who am so ugly, dare to approach them,
Don’t put your legs inward like that!,
Don’t speak so fast.,
Everyone wants to pay as little as possible.,
First later on the day it became quiet; but the poor duckling did not dare to get up yet; it waited several hours more, before it turned around, and then it rushed out of the swamp as fast as it could.,
Gustav was so distracted early this morning that he accidentally put on two different socks.,
He is really not that bad.
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