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Translation

so; therefore

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Examples

, .

He did not come, so we went.

?

So what is it you want?

, .

I do not know, so I shall not say.

, .

So, let us talk about that.

, .

Now you know the truth, so you may go.

Do draws a conclusion from what came before, and it is the mirror image of ĉar: ĉar gives the reason, do gives the result. Slipped inside a question it adds a shade of impatience, roughly the English "well then". Do not confuse it with the English word "do", which has no Esperanto equivalent at all, since questions are built with ĉu instead.

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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 12: do, granda, multa and 9 more words.