so that
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.40 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
conj
Indicates result; in order that, with the result that.
Example Sentences
- "He must die so that (as a result) others may/might live."
- "You so create your own activities that you find them fulfilling."
- "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."
- "He tied a complex knot so that others would find it hard to undo."
- "I’ll open a window, so that we’ll get some fresh air in here."
- "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 stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face."
Etymology
From Middle English so that, so þat, sa þat, swo þat, swa þat, from Old English swā þæt, equivalent to so + that. Cognate with Saterland Frisian sodät, West Frisian sadat, Dutch zodat, German sodaß, sodass.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: so that, swā þæt