sowie German · revision 35753

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Germany: [zoˈviː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Austria, Southern-Germany, Switzerland: [soˈviː]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sowie'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|de|so|wie]], written together from the phrase “so wie”.^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)^(DWB|16, 1824)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Grimms' dictionary first quotes it from Lessing, as a strengthened [[wie]] in comparisons with the sense “according as”.^(DWB|16, 1824)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The Grimms list three uses at the end of the 19th century: the comparative particle, the joining particle “as well as”, which was then still more often written apart as ''so … wie'', and, in colloquial speech, a conjunction of time for [[sobald]].^(DWB|16, 1824) Both the joining sense and the sense of time are standard today.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Conjunction===

+ # As well as, and also, joining the members of a list: ''Eingeladen sind die Lehrer sowie die Eltern.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # As soon as: ''Sowie der Regen aufhört, gehen wir los.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[so]]

+ * [[wie]]

+ * [[sobald]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}