Translation
afterwards
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Examples
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I shall speak about this matter afterwards.
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He came a little later.
, .
First he did these things, afterwards those.
?
What of it?
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After that I never saw him again.
is post plus the old ablative , "after that thing", and it is an adverb only. That is the distinction to hold: post is both a preposition with the ACCUSATIVE (post , after the war) and an adverb, while can never take a noun after it, and is a conjunction joining a finite clause.
In narrative it is the standard later beat of a sequence: ... ... ... . It takes a measure of time in the ablative in front of it, , "a little afterwards", , "much later". The clipped rhetorical ? is Latin for "so what?".
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 11: postea, valde, cur and 7 more words.