[quote=Оля]
Quote Originally Posted by sperk
Quote Originally Posted by "Оля":3mbfykhg
P.S. I've thought about another example: "он так с ним никогда и не встретился..."
what does that mean? I don't get what так means.
thanks
It means, "He never met him", "They never met". Alas, it's hard to translate the sentence into English in some another way.
"Так и не..." means that something was planned to happen, or someone wanted very much it to happen, but the event never happened anyway. "Так и не..." has a slight nuance of disappointment.[/quote:3mbfykhg]

+1 Sth that failed to happen. I.e. their meeting failed, and he never met him.
And the whole construction is "так и не".