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 (ʔaḵīr), بَعْدَ ذٰلِك‎ (baʕda ḏālik)
• Armenian: հետո (hy) (heto)
• Aromanian: apoi
• Bengali: এরপর (bn) (erpôr), এর পর (bn) (er por), এরপরে (bn) (erpôre), এর পরে (bn) (er pore), তারপর (bn) (tarpôr), তার পর (bn) (tar por), তারপরে (bn) (tarpôre), তার পরে (bn) (tar pore)
• 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／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)
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌹𐌸𐌴 (biþē)
• 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
• Irish: ina dhiaidh sin
• Italian: dopo (it), poi (it), successivamente (it), in seguito, dopodiché
• 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, nō muri
• Norwegian: i etterkant, derpå (no)

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

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

• Persian: بعد‎ (fa) (ba'd), بعداً‎ (fa) (ba'dan)
• 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), впосле́дствии (ru) (vposlédstvii)
• 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)

• Slovak: potom
• 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
• Ukrainian: пізні́ше (uk) (pizníše), зго́дом (zhódom), по́тім (pótim)
• Urdu: بعد میں‎ (bād mẽ)
• Vietnamese: sau này (vi), sau đó (vi), về sau (vi)
• Volapük: poso (vo)
• Welsh: wedyn
• Yiddish: דערנאָך‎ (dernokh)