après
English
Preposition
après
Usage notes
- Often hyphenated to its referent, following conventions of English multi-word–modifier hyphenation.
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan (compare Occitan aprés), from Latin apprensus, variant of apprehensus.
Pronunciation
French
Etymology
From Middle French aprés, from Old French aprés, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum, from Latin ad + pressum.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pʁɛ/
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Adverb
après
- afterwards
- On va au cinéma après. ― We'll go to the cinema afterwards.
- (Louisiana) in the middle of, in the process of (doing something)
References
- Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
Further reading
- “après” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Alternative forms
- oprès (Guernsey)
Etymology
From Old French aprés, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum, from Latin ad + pressum.
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum from Latin ad + pressum.
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