afterwards

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old English æfteweard (“behind”) + -s (“(adverbial genitive)”). Surface analysis is after +‎ -wards.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːftə.wədz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/

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• Hyphenation: af‧ter‧wards
• Homophone: afterwords

Adverb

afterwards (not comparable)

1. (temporal location) At a later or succeeding time.
   • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Another Karadeniz cross led to Cudicini's first save of the night, with the Spurs keeper making up for a weak punch by brilliantly pushing away Christian Noboa's snap-shot.
     Two more top-class stops followed quickly afterwards, first from Natcho's rasping shot which was heading into the top corner, and then to deny Ryazantsev at his near post.

Synonyms

• afterhand, afterward; see also Thesaurus:subsequently

Antonyms

• beforehand

Related terms

• after

Translations

at a later or succeeding time

• Albanian: pastaj (sq)
• Arabic: أَخِير‎ (ʾaḵīr), بَعْدَ ذٰلِك‎ (baʿda ḏālik)
• Armenian: հետո (hy) (heto)
• Aromanian: apoi
• Bengali: এরপর (erpôr), এর পর (er pôr), এরপরে (erpôre), এর পরে (er pôre), তারপর (tarpôr), তার পর (tar pôr), তারপরে (tarpôre), তার পরে (tar pôre)
• Bislama: bihaen
• Bulgarian: след това (sled tova), впоследствие (bg) (vposledstvie)
• Burmese: နောက်ပြီး (my) (naukpri:)
• Catalan: després (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎤᎶᏐᏅ (ulosonv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 然後, 然后 (jin⁴ hau⁶), 然之後, 然之后 (jin⁴ zi¹ hau⁶)

  Mandarin: 然後 (zh), 然后 (zh) (ránhòu)

• Czech: později (cs), poté (cs)
• Danish: bagefter, senere (da)
• Dutch: nadien (nl), achteraf (nl)
• Esperanto: poste (eo)
• Finnish: jälkeenpäin (fi), jälkikäteen, perästäpäin, sittemmin, myöhemmin (fi), perässä (fi)
• French: après (fr), ultérieurement (fr), ensuite (fr), après coup (fr), par la suite (fr)
• Georgian: შემდეგ (šemdeg), შემდგომ (šemdgom), შემდეგში (šemdegši)
• German: später (de), nachher (de), danach (de), hinterher (de)
• Greek: ύστερα (el) (ýstera), κατόπιν (el) (katópin), μετά (el) (metá)

  Ancient: ὑστέρως (hustérōs), εἶτα (eîta)

• Hebrew: אחר־כך‎ (akhar-kakh)
• Hindi: बाद में (hi) (bād mẽ)
• Hungarian: azután (hu), később (hu), utóbb, utólag (hu), utána (hu)
• Ido: pose (io)
• Interlingua: pois
• Interlingue: poy, plu tard, pos to
• Irish: ina dhiaidh sin
• Italian: dopo (it), poi (it), successivamente (it), in seguito

• Japanese: その後 (sonogo), それから (sorekara), 後で (atode)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لە دواییا‎ (le dwayya), پاشان‎ (ku) (paşan)

• Latin: posteā, mox (la), hinc (la), tunc (la)
• Latvian: pēc tam, vēlāk
• Maori: muri
• Norwegian: i etterkant, derpå (no)

  Bokmål: etter (no), etterpå (no), senere (no), deretter (no), i ettertid

  Nynorsk: etter (nn), etterpå, deretter, i ettertid

• Novial: aftru
• Persian: بعد‎ (fa) (ba'd)
• Plautdietsch: hinjahäa
• Polish: później (pl), potem (pl)
• Portuguese: depois (pt), mais tarde, em seguida
• Romanian: apoi (ro), mai târziu (ro)
• Russian: по́зже (ru) (pózže), потом (ru) (potom), после (ru) (posle)
• Sanskrit: अनु (sa) (anu)
• Scottish Gaelic: an dèidh sin, an dèidh làimhe
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: после, касније, после / послије, потом (sh), накнадно

  Roman: posle (sh), kasnije (sh), posle (sh) / poslije (sh), potom (sh), naknadno (sh)

• Slovene: potém (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pótom, pón

• Spanish: después (es), consecuentemente, en seguida (es)
• Swedish: efteråt (sv), senare (sv)
• Tagalog: pagkatapos (tl)
• Tok Pisin: bihain
• Turkish: sonradan (tr), daha sonra, sonraları (tr), sonra (tr), sonrasında
• Urdu: بعد میں‎ (bād mẽ)
• Vietnamese: sau này (vi), sau đó (vi), về sau (vi)
• Volapük: poso (vo)
• Welsh: wedyn
• Yiddish: דערנאָך‎ (dernokh)