Translation
after; behind
Examples
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After the war there was peace.
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He came after me.
discessit.
He left a few days later.
Postquam , .
After he had said this, he went away.
vinctae .
His hands were tied behind his back.
As a preposition post takes the ACCUSATIVE: post , post me, post . It reads as "behind" in space and "after" in time, and Latin uses the same word for both, where English keeps them apart. It also works as a bare adverb meaning "afterwards, later", usually alongside an ablative of measure ( post ).
Welded to it becomes the conjunction postquam, which introduces a completed action and normally takes the PERFECT indicative: postquam , "after he came". The frequency count folds postquam in with post, since they are the same word doing two jobs.
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