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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

あとで

Native Script:後で

Pronunciation / Transliteration: atode

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Afterward/ˈɑːf.tə.wəd/
adverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"私たちは夕食を食べたあとで映画館に行きました。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As adverb
  1. 1

    At a later time; subsequently or later.

    "We had dinner at the restaurant and went to the cinema afterward."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'æfterweard', combining 'æfter' (after) and '-weard' (indicating direction). Over centuries, it evolved from expressing physical following into its modern temporal sense denoting subsequent occurrence.

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