und so weiter

[ oont zoh vahy-tuhr ]

adverb

, German.

1. and so forth; et cetera. : usw, u.s.w.

Example Sentences

As the novelist Joshua Cohen pointed out in an extraordinary essay in the Paris Review, the culture industry that has flourished around the genius from Prague has produced “thousands of essays and academic papers, more than a hundred biographies, more than a dozen films and TV shows, not to mention the Kafka-branding industry, which includes a computer font that reproduces the author’s handwriting … and smartphone covers emblazoned with his face, und so weiter.”

From Washington Post

In between, it touches down with assorted fairy tales, the songs of the angel Gabriel, a theory of werewolves, some mild pornography, an avant-garde stage play und so weiter.

From New York Times

Now, when I think of Gœthe, I seem to see his soul, all the variegated plumes of knowledge, artistic form "und so weiter," burnt from it by the fires of divine love, wingless, motionless, unable to hide from itself in any subterfuge of labor, saying again and again, the simple words which he would never distinctly say on earth—God beyond Nature—Faith beyond Sight—the Seeker nobler than the Meister.

From Project Gutenberg

So far, HP’s webOS has been almost more active in its undeath than it was in life – with rumours saying that it will be kept on as an embedded OS, sold to Amazon, sold to RIM, sold to , sold to , open-sourced, mothballed und so weiter.

From Forbes

But the real difficulty in meeting your gorgeous revelations as they deserve is that of breaking out in sympathy and curiosity at points enough—and leaping with you breathless from Schiller to Tiepolo—through all the Gothicry of Augsburg, W�rzburg, und so weiter.

From Project Gutenberg