# etc. pp.

etc. pp. is a German adverb meaning “and so on”.

## Meanings

1. and so on; on and on implying that the list is particularly long, and often that something is a burden
   - Die Handlung – der frustrierte Gelehrte Faust schließt, um endlich doch Erfüllung zu finden, einen Pakt mit dem Teufel, hat Sex mit Gretchen, die dann als Kindsmörderin hingerichtet wird etc. pp. – interessiert schon mal gar nicht. — The plot – the frustrated scholar Faust, to finally find fulfillment, strikes a pact with the Devil, has sex with Gretchen, who is then executed as a child murderer, blah blah blah – is utterly uninteresting.

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