so yeah
- idiom
- Slang
- It's a balancing thing, so...yeah.
- so yeah, I guess
- so yeah, you know
- so yeah, I mean
It doesn't happen that often so yeah, I might just never learn.
- It doesn't happen that often so yeah, I might just never learn.
- Well, I don't know her, so yeah, she could have been like, bad.
- You know, she's like, OK, you know, So yeah, that's a lot to shoulder.
- I'm looking at one right now, you know, So yeah, that that makes sense.
- And I'm like, so yeah, I'm kind of always disappointed.
- I'm a dressing gown going through stuff, you know, So, yeah, I'm really enjoying this.
- Sam's a big Twitch dude, so yeah, Yeah, that'll be cool.
- But yeah, I found my five star book, so yeah, that that worked out.
- OK, so yeah, so go, go play that.
Examples
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So, yeah, we are together forever.
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Yeah, my father was a Hindu, my mother's a Baptist, so, yeah...
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This is my living room, so yeah, that is it.
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OK, so yeah, so go, go play that.
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We're about to go on a little tour with the group, so yeah, let's go.
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So yeah, that was what urged me to move it up the pile to be read.
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Abby's a lady of really fine taste, so yeah, it smells amazing.
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As for the rest of your points, they seemed to flow from a flawed premise, so yeah.
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So yeah, chip in some change to help Ryan do his FOI work.
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I missed the bus this morning, so yeah, I was late for work.
Synonyms
A short reply to show you are listening and understand
To show that one thing happens because of another
To give only the main facts
To say something briefly and clearly
That shows the work is finished or the result is ready
To say something in a few short words
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'so' (marking consequence or result) with 'yeah' (casual agreement/confirmation), so its pragmatic function as a brief summary/conclusion or marker of a resulting state is directly inferable from the constituents. Although informal, the composition follows a predictable discourse pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will generally understand the meaning.
Etymology
So yeah comes from everyday talk: people say so to point to a result and add yeah as a friendly nod, so the phrase now means 'to summarize' or 'as a result'.