Essential French Word
Sound file: soit
Register #1: normal
Translation: that is, for example
Je vous ai envoyé les détails essentiels, soit le transport, l’hôtel, et cetera.
I sent you the important details, for example transportation, the hotel, etc.
Emphatic conjunction: soit … soit
Translation: either … or
Soit l’un, soit l’autre, ça m’est égal.
One or the other, I don’t care.Tu peux avoir soit le rouge, soit le vert.
You can have either the red one or the green one.
Register #2: formal
Translation: so be it, very well then
Célianne veut partir ? Alors, soit, qu’elle parte.
Célianne wants to leave? Very well then, let her leave.
Note that soit is also the third person singular subjunctive of être (to be).
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