après

See also: apres, aprés, and âpres

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French après.

Preposition

après

  1. After.
    • 2002, Jorge Ramos, The Other Face of America, Patricia J Duncan tr.
      How about an après ski massage? Well, it’ll cost you $80 for fifty minutes at the Aspen Club, tip included. Thank goodness.

Usage notes

  • Often hyphenated to its referent, following conventions of English multi-wordmodifier hyphenation.

Derived terms

Noun

après (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of après-ski.

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan aprés), from Latin apprensus, variant of apprehensus.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /əˈpɾəs/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /əˈpɾɛs/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /aˈpɾes/
  • Rhymes: -ɛs

Adjective

après (feminine apresa, masculine plural apresos, feminine plural apreses)

  1. learnt

Verb

après m (feminine apresa, masculine plural apresos, feminine plural apreses)

  1. past participle of aprendre

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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Preposition

après

  1. after
    On mange après avoir bu.We eat after we drink.

Adverb

après

  1. afterwards
    On va au cinéma après.We'll go to the cinema afterwards.
  2. (Louisiana) in the middle of, in the process of (doing something)

References

  1. Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert

Further reading

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Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French aprés, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum, from Latin ad + pressum.

Preposition

après

  1. (Jersey) after

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *adpressum from Latin ad + pressum.

Preposition

après

  1. after; afterwards
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