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English
Etymology
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar, from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epoteros (“further behind, further away”), from *h₂epo (“off, away”).
Cognate with Scots efter (“after”), North Frisian efter (“after, behind”), West Frisian after, achter, efter (“behind; after”), Low German/Dutch achter (“behind”), German after- (“after-”), Swedish/Danish efter (“after”), Norwegian etter (“after”), Icelandic eftir (“after”), aftur (“back, again”).
The Irish usage to indicate recent completion of an activity is a calque of the Irish collocation Táim tar éis... (“I have just...”, literally “I am after...”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
after (not comparable)
- Behind; later in time; following.
I left the room, and the dog bounded after.
They lived happily ever after.
I might come next month, or the month after.
- On the result of. Often used with verbs related to cleaning.
I'm tired of picking up after you. Why can't you clean your own messes?
Derived terms
Translations
behind; later in time; following
- Adyghe: иуж (jiwuž), иужым (jiwužəm)
- Albanian: mbas (sq), pas (sq), pasi (sq)
- Arabic: بعد (ar) (baʕda)
- Hijazi Arabic: بَعَد (baʕad)
- Armenian: հետո (hy) (heto)
- Azerbaijani: sonra (az)
- Bengali: বাদে (bn) (bade)
- Bulgarian: зад (bg) (zad)
- Carpathian Rusyn: пак (pak)
- Catalan: més tard (ca), després (ca), acabat (ca), en acabat (ca)
- Chamicuro: yajtikini
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 之後/之后 (zi1 hau6)
- Mandarin: 以后 (zh) (yǐhòu)
- Czech: potom (cs)
- Dalmatian: dapú
- Danish: efter (da), senere (da)
- Dutch: na (nl), achter (nl)
- Finnish: myöhemmin (fi)
- French: après (fr)
- Friulian: daspò
- Galician: despois (gl)
- Georgian: შემდეგ (šemdeg), შემდგომ (šemdgom)
- German: hinterher (de), darauf (de)
- Greek: κατόπιν (el) (katópin), ύστερα (el) (ýstera), έπειτα (el) (épeita)
- Hungarian: utána (hu)
- Icelandic: eftir (is)
- Ido: pose (io)
- Irish: tar éis
- Istriot: duopo
- Italian: poi (it), dopo (it)
- Japanese: 後で 、 のちに
- Kaingang: kar kỹ
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 다음에 (ko) (da'eum-e), (hereafter, later than now) 앞으로 (ko) (ap-euro)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: pēc (lv)
- Louisiana Creole French: apré
- Low German:
- German Low German: achterher (nds)
- Luxembourgish: nodeem
- Malayalam: ശേഷം (ml) (śēṣaṁ)
- Neapolitan: appriesso
- Northern Sami: maŋŋá
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: senere (no), seinere (no), etterpå (no), etter (no)
- Nynorsk: seinare, etterpå, etter (nn)
- Occitan: après (oc), aprèp (oc)
- Ojibwe: ishkwaa-
- Persian: پس از
- Polish: potem (pl)
- Portuguese: depois (pt)
- Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi: مَگروں (magroṉ)
- Romanian: după (ro)
- Russian: по́сле (ru) (pósle), пото́м (ru) (potóm)
- Sanskrit: पश्चात् (sa) (paścā́t)
- Sardinian: dabosca, posca, postis
- Saterland Frisian: ätter
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh sin, an dèidh làimhe
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏сле
- Roman: pȍsle (sh)
- Shan: ဝၢႆး (shn) (wáai)
- Sicilian: dopu (scn), doppu (scn)
- Slovak: potom
- Somali: kaddib
- Southern Ohlone: itsa
- Spanish: después (es)
- Swahili: baada (sw)
- Swedish: efter (sv), senare (sv)
- Thai: หลัง (th) (lǎng)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: bihain
- Turkish: sonra (tr)
- Venetian: dapò
- Vietnamese: sau (vi)
- Waigali: potom
- Walloon: après (wa) (with "çoula" or "ça"), padrî (wa) (behind)
- West Frisian: nei
- White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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Preposition
after
- Subsequently to; following in time; later than.
We had a few beers after the game.
The time is quarter after eight.
The Cold War began shortly after WWII.
After you with the salt/paper.
I told her to shut the door after her.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.
2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
- (in reduplicative expressions) Repeatedly, seemingly in a sequence without end.
- day after day, time after time, mile after mile, beer after beer, smile after smile
- Behind.
He will leave a trail of destruction after him.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- In pursuit of, seeking.
He's after a job; run after him; inquire after her health.
- In allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing.
We named him after his grandfather; a painting after Leonardo da Vinci.
1735, The Sportsman's Dictionary:Work your horse in a calade, after the Italian way; ride him straight, and then you make good use of the calade.
- Next in importance or rank.
The princess is next in line to the throne after the prince.
- As a result of.
After your bad behaviour, you will be punished.
- In spite of.
After all that has happened, he is still my friend.
- I can't believe that, after all our advice against gambling, you walked into that casino!
- (Ireland, Newfoundland, usually preceded by a form of be, followed by an -ing form of a verb) Used to indicate recent completion of an activity
I was after finishing my dinner when there was a knock on the door.
1875, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, page 283:He was after walking on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before, all the way from the County Limerick, where his brother, Father John, has a parish; and you may believe, the poor man was tired
1906, Lady Gregory, “A Miracle Play”, in The Shanachie, volume 1:Mother: Let him get away out of this now, himself and his share of songs. Look at the way he has your bib destroyed that I was after washing in the morning!
2004, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, page 40:When I woke up it was black-dark and the music was after stopping. I could taste the bread I was after eating in the dream, as sweet and luscious as any I ever knew
2004, Tabor Evans, Longarm and the Great Milk Train Robbery:He asked directions to the dairy those milk cans had shown up late at. Corrigan pointed back the way he'd come and explained, “You'd have been after riding past their loading platform because they don't have their sign overlooking where the train would be after stopping.
2008, M. P. Shiel, The Black Box, page 45:"Yes. And where were you when the flood broke loose?" / "I would be most of the way to the Old House then. O'Loughlin was after running in wild to tell me he was hearing the Banshee out at The Old House, […] ."
- (dated) According to an author or text.
- Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to.
- to look after workmen; to enquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness
- (obsolete) According to the direction and influence of; in proportion to; befitting.
a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. ”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. , London: I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, , published 1629, →OCLC:He takes greatness of kingdoms according to bulk and currency, and not after their intrinsic value.
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Usage notes
- The Irish English usage example is equivalent to "I had just finished my dinner when .".
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
subsequently; following in time; later than
- Abkhaz: уашҭан (waŝtan)
- Afrikaans: na (af)
- Albanian: pas (sq)
- Amharic: በኋላ (bäḫʷala)
- Arabic: بَعْدَ (ar) (baʕda)
- Egyptian Arabic: بعد (baʕd)
- Hijazi Arabic: بعد (baʕad)
- Moroccan Arabic: مور (mūr)
- Armenian: հետո (hy) (heto)
- Aromanian: dupã, dupu, dipu, dipã
- Baluchi: بعد چہ (ba'd ce, ba'd ca)
- Belarusian: пасля́ (pasljá), по́сле (póslje)
- Bengali: পরে (bn) (pore)
- Bulgarian: след (bg) (sled), подир (bg) (podir)
- Catalan: després de, acabat de, en acabat de
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: ...以後/...以后 (zh) (...yǐhòu)
- Cornish: wosa
- Czech: po (cs)
- Danish: efter (da)
- Dutch: na (nl), over (nl) (clock)
- Esperanto: post (eo)
- Estonian: pärast (et)
- Finnish: jälkeen (fi), yli (fi) (clock)
- French: après (fr)
- Friulian: daspò
- Galician: despois de (gl)
- German: nach (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂 (afar) (+ accusative)
- Greek: μετά (el) (metá)
- Ancient: μετά (metá) (+ accusative)
- Haitian Creole: apre
- Hebrew: אחרי (he) (aḥaréi), לאחר (l'aḥar)
- Hindi: ... के बाद (... ke bād)
- Hungarian: után (hu)
- Icelandic: eftir (is)
- Ido: pos (io)
- Indonesian: setelah (id)
- Ingrian: perrää, peräst
- Interlingua: post (ia), depois
- Irish: tar éis, i ndiaidh
- Italian: seguente (it), dopo (it)
- Japanese: 後に (ja) (あとに, ato ni)
- Korean: 다음에 (ko) (da'eum-e)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دوایی (dwayî), دوای ئەوە (dway ewe), پاش ئەوە (paş ewe)
- Lao: ຫລັງຈາກ (lang chāk)
- Latin: post (la) (+ accusative), secundum (la)
- Louisiana Creole French: apré
- Macanese: cavâ
- Macedonian: по (po), после (posle)
- Malay: selepas (ms)
- Malayalam: ശേഷം (ml) (śēṣaṁ), കഴിഞ്ഞ് (kaḻiññŭ)
- Maltese: wara
- Marathi: नंतर (nantar)
- Mòcheno: no
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Neapolitan: aroppo
- Norman: oprès (Guernsey)
- Northern Sami: maŋŋá
- Norwegian: etter (no)
- Odia: ପରେ (or) (pôre)
- Old Frisian: ni
- Old Norse: at
- Old Prussian: pa
- Persian: پس از (pas az), بعد از (ba'd az), بعد (fa) (ba'd-e), در پی (dar pi)
- Polabian: pü
- Polish: po (pl)
- Portuguese: depois de
- Proto-Norse: ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after)
- Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi: مَگروں (magroṉ)
- Romanian: după (ro), peste (ro)
- Russian: по́сле (ru) (pósle)
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh, seach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏сле, по̏слије
- Roman: pȍsle (sh), pȍslije (sh)
- Slovak: po
- Slovene: po (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pó
- Spanish: después de
- Swedish: efter (sv)
- Tamil: பிறகு (ta) (piṟaku)
- Thai: หลัง (th) (lǎng)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tok Pisin: bihain
- Tongan: hili
- Turkish: sonra (tr)
- Ukrainian: пі́сля (píslja)
- Urdu: ... کے بعد (... ke bād), بعد از (bād-az), پھر (phir)
- Vietnamese: sau (vi)
- Walloon: après (wa)
- Welsh: ar ôl (cy)
- West Frisian: nei
- Yagnobi: бад (bad)
- Yakut: кэлин (kelin)
- Yiddish: נאָך (nokh)
- Yup'ik: -rraar- (postbase used with subordinative mood endings)
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behind
- Arabic: خَلْفَ (ḵalfa), وَرَاء (warāʔ)
- Egyptian Arabic: ورا (wara)
- Hijazi Arabic: ورا (wara)
- Armenian: հետո (hy) (heto)
- Bulgarian: зад (bg) (zad)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: ...後面/...后面 (zh) (...hòumiàn)
- Czech: po (cs)
- Danish: efter (da), bagefter
- Dutch: achter (nl)
- Finnish: taakse (fi), takana (fi), jälkeen (fi), jäljessä (fi)
- French: derrière (fr)
- Galician: detrás de (gl), tras (gl)
- German: hinter (de)
- Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂 (afar) (+ dative)
- Hebrew: אחרי (he), מאחור (he)
- Hungarian: után (hu), mögött (hu)
- Italian: dietro (it)
- Japanese: ...の後ろに (ja) (...no ushiro ni)
- Korean: 뒤에 (ko) (dwi-e)
- Latin: post (la), secundum (la)
- Louisiana Creole French: dèriyè, dèriyær
- Malayalam: പിന്നാലെ (pinnāle)
- Maltese: wara
- Neapolitan: appriesso
- Norwegian: etter (no), bak (no)
- Odia: ପଛରେ (or) (pôchôre)
- Old Norse: aptan
- Old Prussian: pas
- Polish: za (pl)
- Portuguese: atrás de
- Romanian: după (ro), în urmă
- Russian: за (ru) (za), позади́ (ru) (pozadí), сза́ди (ru) (szádi)
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за, иза
- Roman: za, iza
- Slovak: za (sk)
- Slovene: za (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pó
- Spanish: detrás de, tras (es)
- Swedish: efter (sv), bakom (sv)
- Turkish: arkasında (tr), ardından
- Ukrainian: поза́ду (pozádu)
- Vietnamese: sau (vi)
- Walloon: dirî (wa), padrî (wa)
- West Frisian: efter
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in pursuit of, seeking
- Armenian: ետևից (etewicʻ), հետևից (hetewicʻ)
- Bulgarian: следващ (bg) (sledvašt)
- Czech: za (cs), na (cs)
- Danish: efter (da)
- Dutch: achter aan
- Finnish: perään (fi), perässä (fi), jälkeen (fi), jäljessä (fi)
- Galician: tras (gl), detrás de (gl)
- German: hinter (de)
- Hungarian: után (hu), nyomában (hu)
- Italian: in seguito (it)
- Korean: 추구하여 (chuguhayeo)
- Northern Sami: oavnnjil
- Norwegian: etter (no)
- Polish: za (pl)
- Portuguese: atrás de
- Romanian: în căutarea, pe urmele, pe urmele
- Russian: за (ru) (za), в по́исках (v póiskax)
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh, air
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за
- Roman: za
- Slovak: za (sk), po, na (sk)
- Slovene: za (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pó
- Spanish: tras (es), detrás de
- Swedish: efter (sv)
- Turkish: peşinde (tr), ardında, arkasında (tr)
- Walloon: après (wa)
- West Frisian: efter oan
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in allusion to, in imitation of; following or referencing
- Armenian: պատվին (patvin)
- Bulgarian: по (bg) (po), според (bg) (spored)
- Czech: po (cs), podle (cs)
- Danish: efter (da)
- Dutch: naar (nl)
- Finnish: mukaan (fi), mukaillen (fi)
- French: d’après (fr)
- Galician: por (gl)
- German: nach (de)
- Hungarian: -ról (hu), -ről (hu)
- Italian: da (it)
- Korean: 연유하여 (yeonyuhayeo), 따라서 (ko) (ttaraseo), 따라서 (ko) (ttaraseo)
- Latin: ab (la), a (la)
- Norwegian: etter (no)
- Old Norse: at
- Old Prussian: pa
- Polish: po (pl), w stylu
- Portuguese: por (pt), segundo (pt)
- Russian: в честь (ru) (v čestʹ), по моти́вам (po motívam), по образцу́ (po obrazcú)
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏
- Roman: pȍ (sh)
- Slovak: podľa, po
- Slovene: po (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: pó
- Spanish: por (es)
- Swedish: efter (sv)
- Walloon: d'après, sorlon (wa)
- West Frisian: neffens
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next in importance or rank
as a result of
- Armenian: պատճառով (hy) (patčaṙov)
- Czech: za (cs)
- Danish: efter (da), som følge af
- Dutch: vanwege (nl), door (nl)
- Finnish: vuoksi (fi), takia (fi), seurauksena
- French: à cause de
- German: wegen (de)
- Hebrew: בעקבות, (please verify) כתוצאה מ
- Hungarian: miatt (hu)
- Italian: per causa di
- Northern Sami: geažil
- Norwegian: etter at
- Polish: za (pl)
- Portuguese: devido a (pt), por causa de (pt)
- Romanian: în urma, ca urmare a
- Russian: и́з-за (ru) (íz-za), в результа́те (ru) (v rezulʹtáte)
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏сле, збо̏г
- Roman: pȍsle (sh), zbȍg
- Slovak: po
- Spanish: debido a, por causa de (es)
- Swedish: efter (sv)
- Turkish: sonucunda, sonrasında
- Walloon: a cåze di (wa), di cåze di (wa)
- West Frisian: om, troch
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Translations to be checked
Conjunction
after
- Signifies that the action of the clause it starts takes place before the action of the other clause.
I went home after we had decided to call it a day.
1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- 1991, Donald "Shadow" Rimgale (character), Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft
- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:Plant breeding is always a numbers game. […] The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
Translations
signifies that the action of its clause takes place before the action of the other clause
- Arabic: بَعْدَمَا (baʕdamā)
- Bulgarian: след като (sled kato)
- Catalan: després que, acabat que, en acabat que
- Dutch: nadat (nl)
- Finnish: kun (fi), sen jälkeen, kun
- French: après que (fr), après de
- German: nachdem (de)
- Greek: αφού (el) (afoú)
- Hungarian: miután (hu)
- Italian: dopo (it)
- Lao: ຫລັງຈາກ (lang chāk)
- Latin: postquam (la)
- Malayalam: ശേഷം (ml) (śēṣaṁ)
- Ngazidja Comorian: ɓaȃɗa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: etter (no), etter at
- Nynorsk: etter (no), etter at
- Portuguese: depois de
- Russian: по́сле того́, как (ru) (pósle tovó, kak)
- Scots: efter, eftir
- Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh do
- Slovak: potom čo
- Spanish: después (es)
- Yiddish: נאָך דעם וואָס (nokh dem vos)
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Adjective
after
- (dated) Later; second (of two); next, following, subsequent
1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 72:I did verily believe in my own mind, that I couldn't fight in that way at all; but my after experience convinced me that this was all a notion.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:In the old days, […] he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […] and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- (nautical, where the frame of reference is within the ship) At or towards the stern of a ship.
The after gun is mounted aft.
The after gun is abaft the forward gun.
1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:Caspian led them down a ladder into the after hatch.
Usage notes
- As shown in the examples above, the adverb in this nautical usage is aft and the related preposition is abaft.
Derived terms
Noun
after (plural afters)
- Of before-and-after images: the one that shows the difference after a specified treatment.
- Coordinate term: before
1987, Joanna Z. Adams, Makeovers, London: Headline Book Publishing Plc, →ISBN, page 61:In the ‘before’ shots, she’ll look like an ordinary suburban housewife; but we know she acts in community theater musicals sometimes, so the ‘afters’ will give her a glamorous starlet image, starting with a very revealing bathing suit shot.
1998, Alan Gaynor, “How to Choose a Doctor”, in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Cosmetic Surgery But Couldn’t Afford to Ask: A Complete Look at the Latest Techniques and Why They Are Safer and Less Expensive, by One of Today’s Most Prominent Cosmetic Surgeons, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, part I (The New Aesthetic Surgery), page 66:Did any of the before pictures remind you of yourself, and did any of the afters show what you hoped your results might be?
2012, Sherry Petersik, John Petersik, Young House Love: 243 Ways to Paint, Craft, Update & Show Your Home Some Love, New York, N.Y.: Artisan, →ISBN, page 16, column 2:So with that in mind, we thought it might be helpful to put some pictures where our mouths are, and include some less-than-flattering photos of our first house after we’d lived there eight whole months. Spoiler alert: We were miiiles away from the “afters” that we shared on pages 6 and 7.
Related terms
References
- Hall, Joseph Sargent (1942 March 2) “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King's Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 2, page 88.
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
- “after”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Middle High German after, from Old High German after.
Preposition
after (governs the dative)
- (chiefly Early New High German) after
1853, Gustav Eduard Benseler, Geschichte Freibergs und seines Bergbaues. Erste Abtheilung, Freiberg, page 251:Nun fragte der Forderer weiter an: wer irgend einen von ihnen after dem Tage hause oder hofe, d. h. zu Hause oder Hofe beherberge, wie der ihm zu Rechte bestanden sein. [...] Auf die fernere Frage des Forderers: ob er ihrer einen after dem Tage ansichtig werde, wie oder mit wem er sie aufhalten sollte, erklärte man ihm […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Middle Dutch
Preposition
after
- (Holland) Alternative form of achter
Adverb
after
- (Holland) Alternative form of achter
Middle High German
Etymology
From Old High German after.
Preposition
after (+ dative)
- after
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *after, whence also Old English æfter, Old Norse aptr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epótero- (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
after (+ dative)
- after
after zweim tagon- after two days
- according to, in
Adverb
after
- behind
- after
- back
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer
Polish
Etymology
Pseudo-anglicism, derived from after-party.
Pronunciation
Noun
after m inan
- (slang) after-party
- Synonyms: afterek, afterka, afterparty
- Antonyms: bifor, biforek, biforka
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- after in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- after at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English after[-party].
Pronunciation
Noun
after m (plural afters)
- (informal) after-party
- (informal) late-night bar
Proto-Norse
Romanization
after
- Romanization of ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ
Scots
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
after
- comparative degree of aft
Etymology 2
Adverb
after (comparative aftener, superlative aftenest)
- often, frequently
References
Spanish
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Etymology
Borrowed from English after[-party].
Pronunciation
Noun
after m (plural afters)
- after-party
- late-night bar
West Frisian
Preposition
after
- Alternative form of achter