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English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishso that,so þat,sa þat,swo þat,swa þat, fromOld Englishswā þæt, equivalent toso +‎that. Cognate withSaterland Frisiansodät,West Frisiansadat,Dutchzodat,Germansodaß,sodass.

Conjunction

Indicates purpose;in order that, with the result that.
He must dieso that others might live.
- 1900 May 17,L[yman] Frank Baum,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.:Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co.,→OCLC:
  He seized his axe, which he had made very sharp, and as the leader of the wolves came on the Tin Woodman swung his arm and chopped the wolf's head from its body,so that it immediately died.
Indicates purpose; in such a way that, with the intent that.
He tied a complex knotso that others would find it hard to undo.
- 1920,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Avery Hopwood, chapter I, inThe Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book;241), New York, N.Y.:Dell Publishing Company,→OCLC,page01:
  The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuffso that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.

Usage notes

“So that” prefaces a subordinate clause to show purpose or to give an explanation. It demonstrates a correlation between an antecedent action and an intended consequent. In aclause 1 “so that” clause2 format, the first clause represents an antecedent proposition and the second clause constitutes a consequence/effect. In a“So that” clause 1 [comma], clause 2 format, the first clause is the intended consequent and the second clause is the antecedent proposition.

Synonyms

in order that
that(conjunction)

Related terms

Translations

in order to

Afrikaans:sodat (af)
Arabic:حَتَّى (ar)(ḥattā)
Egyptian Arabic:علشان(ʕalašān),عشان(ʕašān)
South Levantine Arabic:حتّى(ḥatta),لـ(la-),عشان(ʕašan),منشان(minšān)
Belarusian:каб(kab)
Bengali:যাতে (bn)(jate)
Bikol Central:tanganing (bcl)
Catalan:perquè (ca)(+ subjunctive),(colloquial Valencian)per a que (ca)(+ subjunctive)
Chinese:
Mandarin:以便 (zh)(yǐbiàn),為了 /为了 (zh)(wèile)
Czech:aby (cs)
Dutch:zodat (nl),opdat (nl)
Esperanto:por ke(+ jussive),tiel ke
Finnish:jotta (fi)(in order that);niin,että(with the result that)
French:de sorte que (fr),pour que (fr)(+ subjunctive),afin que (fr)(+ subjunctive),afin de (fr)(+ infinitive)
Middle French:affin que
German:damit (de),sodass (de)
Hebrew:כדי ש־(k’dey she-),(formal)על מנת ש־ (he)(‘al menát she-)
Hindi:ताकि (hi)(tāki)
Hungarian:hogy (hu),azért, hogy (hu)
Icelandic:þannig að
Indonesian:agar (id),supaya (id)
Ingrian:jot,jos,eik
Irish:i riocht is go,ar nós go,sa chaoi go,ionas go
Italian:cosicché (it),perché (it)
Japanese:...ために (ja)(...tame ni)
Khmer:ដើម្បី (km)(daəmbəy)
Latin:ut (la)(+ subjunctive)
Latvian:tāpēc,tāpēc ka
Malay:
Jawi:اݢر,سوڤايا
Rumi:agar (ms),supaya
Ngazidja Comorian:ili (+ subjunctive)
Polish:żeby (pl),aby (pl),by (pl),ażeby (pl)
Portuguese:para que (pt) n,de modo que,em tal guisa que
Russian:так что (ru)(tak što),что́бы (ru)(štóby),чтоб (ru)(štob),да́бы (ru)(dáby)(archaic, poetic)
Scottish Gaelic:air chor 's gu
Slovak:aby
Spanish:para que (es)(+ subjunctive),de modo que(+ subjunctive),de manera que
Swedish:så att,så (sv)(sloppier version, similar to English)
Tok Pisin:olsem na
Turkish:ki (tr)
Ukrainian:щоб (uk)(ščob),що́би(ščóby),аби́ (uk)(abý)
Volapük:dat (vo)
West Frisian:sadat,sa't
Yiddish:בכדי(bikhdéy)

in such a way that, with the intent that

Finnish:siten,että(in such a way that);jotta (fi)(with the intent that)
Ingrian:jot,jos,eik
Swedish:så att,så (sv)(sloppier version, similar to English),för att (sv)

References

“so that”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “so that”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.

Anagrams

Shatto,atshot,shotta

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