Translation
earlier; sooner; before
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Examples
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Do these things first.
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Let us leave before he arrives.
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I had never heard this before.
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I shall speak first about the war, afterwards about peace.
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Nobody came earlier.
is the neuter comparative of doing adverb duty, so it means "earlier, sooner, before now", always with a comparison lurking in it even when the second term is unstated. Its positive is pri- (no free-standing form) and its superlative is or , "first".
Its main use is as half of , "before", which is written as one word or split as ... with words in between: . The mood follows a clean rule. Plain statement of a past fact takes the INDICATIVE; anticipation, purpose or something forestalled takes the SUBJUNCTIVE, which is why above is subjunctive. Keep apart from the adjective and from , "first of many".
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prius: worksheet, infographic and listicle
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 9: prius, quin, longe and 7 more words.