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そして (soshite)

And then; and

Meaning & usage

そして means and or and then and connects two sentences by adding information or showing what happened next. It is placed at the start of the second sentence, after a complete sentence ending in forms like です, ます, or the plain form. It is neutral and common in both speech and writing, but it cannot join nouns or verbs inside a single sentence.

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