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Russian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *togъda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- (colloquial, casual, fast speech) IPA(key): (phonetic respelling: тада́)
- Rhymes: -a
Adverb
тогда́ • (togdá)
- then (at that time)
1880, Салтыков-Щедрин, “Семейный суд”, in Господа Головлёвы; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:Но Арина Петровна уже и тогда с какою-то подозрительностью относилась к этим сыновним заискиваньям. И тогда этот пристально устремлённый на неё взгляд казался ей загадочным, и тогда она не могла определить себе, что именно он источает из себя: яд или сыновнюю почтительность.- No Arina Petrovna uže i togda s kakoju-to podozritelʹnostʹju otnosilasʹ k etim synovnim zaiskivanʹjam. I togda etot pristalʹno ustremljónnyj na nejó vzgljad kazalsja jej zagadočnym, i togda ona ne mogla opredelitʹ sebe, što imenno on istočajet iz sebja: jad ili synovnjuju počtitelʹnostʹ.
- But even then Arina Petrovna already regarded the ingratiating ways of her son with some suspicion. Even then she sensed something enigmatic in the gaze with which he fixed her, and even then she could not precisely determine what it exuded: venom or filial piety.
- then (in that case, only then)
Usage notes
Тогда cannot be used to express a sequence (e.g. "First I did this, then I did that.") For this meaning of "then," see затем and потом.
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