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après

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See also: apres, aprés, âpres, and apress

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French après.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈæpɹeɪ/, /ˈɑːpɹeɪ/, /əˈpɹeɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Preposition

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après

  1. After.
    • 2002, Jorge Ramos, The Other Face of America, Patricia J Duncan tr. [1]
      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

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  • Often hyphenated to its referent, following conventions of English multi-word–modifier hyphenation.

Derived terms

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Noun

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après (uncountable)

  1. Abbreviation of après-ski.

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin apprēnsus, variant of apprehensus. Compare Occitan aprés.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. learnt

Participle

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

  1. past participle of aprendre

References

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  • “après” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French aprés, from Old French aprés, from Late Latin ad pressum, from Latin ad + pressum. [1] Compare Spanish aprés.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.pʁɛ/, (in liaison; preposition only) /a.pʁɛ.z‿/
  • Audio:(file)

Preposition

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après

  1. after, later than in time.
    Antonym: avant
    On mange après avoir bu.We eat after we drink.
    après la fêteafter the party
  2. after, coming for, trying to get (someone).
    • 1957, Roger Vailland, Drôle de jeu, Editions Le Manuscrit, →ISBN, page 38:
      J’en pense que dans cette boîte il y a quelqu’un qui en a après nous et cherche à nous faire virer.
      I think that there's someone in this company who's after us and is looking to get us fired.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: apre
  • Louisiana Creole: apré
  • English: après

Adverb

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après

  1. afterwards
    On va au cinéma après.We'll go to the cinema afterwards.
  2. (Louisiana) Indicates the continuous aspect

Usage notes

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  • In his work on French pronunciation, Pierre Fouché indicates that phonological liaison is not made between the adverb après and a subsequent vowel-initial word, but that liaison is optionally made when such word follows a prepositional use of après or the prepositive locution d’après.[2]
    après une longue nuit/a.pʁɛ.yn/ or /a.pʁɛ.z‿yn.lɔ̃ɡ.nɥi/ (prepositional après)
    Fais ça et après on pourra partir./fɛ.sa.e.a.pʁɛ.ɔ̃.pu.ʁa.paʁ.tiʁ/ (adverbial après)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Saint Dominican Creole French: après
    • Haitian Creole: ap
  • Louisiana Creole: apé

References

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  1. ^ Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
  2. ^ Pierre Fouché (1959) Traité de prononciation française (in French), →ISBN, pages 462, 477

Anagrams

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Haitian Creole

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Etymology

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From French après (after).

Adverb

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après

  1. (Saint-Domingue) Indicates the continuous aspect
    Les autres savé alé cherché chivrons, pour caze à bagasse la nou après fair.The others can go look for chevrons, for the bagasse house that we are making.

Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: ap

References

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  • S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French aprés, from Late Latin ad pressum, from Latin ad + pressum.

Preposition

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après

  1. (Jersey) after
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore[2], page 533:
      Six s'maïnes avant Noué, et six s'maïnes après, les nits sont les pûs longues, et le jours les pûs freds.
      Six weeks before Christmas and six weeks after, the nights are the longest and the days the coldest.

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan, from Late Latin ad pressum from Latin ad + pressum.

Preposition

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après

  1. after; afterwards