Translation
so; so much
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Examples
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He is as brave as his father.
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I have never been so happy.
facilis .
The matter is not so easy.
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He writes as well as he speaks.
stultus ?
Who is so foolish as to believe this?
Tam qualifies adjectives and adverbs, never verbs. If you want 'so much' with a verb, the word is tantum or adeo. Its main use is the correlative pair tam ... quam, 'as ... as': tam fortis quam pater, as brave as his father. Followed by ut it sets up a result clause, tam ... ut, 'so ... that'.
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This word is taught in chapter 1, lesson 11: tam, sine, tunc and 11 more words.