所以

HSK 2#157 by frequencyradical 户

suǒ yǐ["c"]

therefore; as a result; so; the reason why

Examples

所以？

And so?

我很累所以早睡了。

I was very tired, so I went to bed early.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.