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"so" in Dutch

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The Dutch translation for “so” is zo.

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so; therefore

dus

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so that

zodat

Examples of "so" in use

There are 102 examples of the Dutch word for "so" being used:
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There is no smoke without fire.

Er is geen koe zo bont of er zit wel een vlekje aan.
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.

Eerst laat op de dag werd het stil; maar het arme eendje durfde nog niet opstaan; het wachtte nog verscheidene uren, voordat het omkeek, en toen snelde het uit het moeras weg, zo vlug als het maar kon.
It lay there for two whole days; then two wild geese or, rather said, gannets came to him; it was not that long ago that they hatched from the egg, and that is why they were so overconfident.

Zo lag het twee hele dagen; toen kwamen er twee wilde ganzen of, liever gezegd, genten naar hem toe; het was nog niet lang geleden, dat zij uit het ei gekropen waren, en daarom waren zij zo overmoedig.
A lie has no legs.

Al is de leugen nog zo snel, de waarheid achterhaalt hem wel.
It wasn’t very clever of you to throw away that note.

Het was niet zo erg snugger van je om dat briefje weg te gooien.
he laughed so much that he could hardly move

hij moest zo vreselijk lachen dat hij zich nauwelijks kon verroeren
Then we knew it was ammonia and we got out as quickly as possible.

Toen wisten we dat het ammoniak was en zijn we zo rap mogelijk uitgestapt.
It were very large slippers, which only her mother had worn so far, that’s how big they were.

Het waren heel grote pantoffels, die haar moeder tot dusverre gedragen had, zo groot waren zij.
In the capital Beijing the people groan almost daily under high concentrations of fine dust.

In de hoofdstad Peking kreunt de bevolking zo goed als dagelijks onder te hoge concentraties fijn stof.
Gustav was so distracted early this morning that he accidentally put on two different socks.

Gustav was vanmorgen vroeg zo verstrooid dat hij per ongeluk twee verschillende sokken had aantrokken.

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a branch that was as thick as a python,
A lie has no legs.,
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 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 so young and looks so beautiful!,
he laughed so much that he could hardly move,
her grandmother had never before been so beautiful, so big,
He’s so generous.
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