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According to my dictionary, the word

> それで

means

> and; thereupon; because of that

while

> それ

means

> that (indicating an item or person near the listener, the action of the
> listener, or something on their mind)

**Question:** Is それで parsed by Japanese speakers as its own distinct word
having nothing to do with それ, or is it seen as the combination それ + で? I ask
because if I squint my eyes and interpret

> それで

as "through (で) that (それ)", it kind of resembles "because of that" (the
definition provided above for それで).
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Is それで parsed by Japanese speakers as its own unique word, or それ + で?
It's technically two words, それ ("that") + で ("with ～"), but it's treated
almost as a one fixed word meaning "So..." or "And...".

それで is sometimes used even at the very beginning of a conversation (English
"so" happens to be used like this, too), so the literal meaning of それ is often
not important when people say それで.
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