après

Alternative forms

• apres, aprés (nonstandard)

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.

Noun

après (uncountable)

1. Abbreviation of après-ski.

Anagrams

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spear, Spera, apers, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare, spear

Etymology

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

Verb

après

1. past participle of aprendre

Adjective

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

1. learnt

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

Further reading

• “après” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• épars, pares, parés, râpes, râpés, repas, saper

Alternative forms

• oprès (Guernsey)

Etymology

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

Preposition

après

1. (Jersey) after

Etymology

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

Preposition

après

1. after; afterwards