efter

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English

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Noun

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efter (plural efters)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A thief who frequents theaters.
    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
      [] E was an Efter, that went to the play; / F was a Fogle he knapped on his way; []

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (more aft, further behind), *after. Related to Norwegian Bokmål etter, Swedish efter, and English after.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛfdɐ/, [ˈefd̥ɐ], [ˈeftɒ̽]

Preposition

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efter

  1. after; subsequent; later in time than
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Adverb

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efter

  1. later, afterwards (in time)
  2. after (in a sequence)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Danish efter, from Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (more aft, further behind), *after. Related to Norwegian Bokmål etter, Swedish efter, and English after.

Preposition

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efter

  1. (Riksmål) after; subsequent; later in time than
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Adverb

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efter

  1. (Riksmål) later, afterwards (in time)
  2. (Riksmål) after (in a sequence)

Old English

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Preposition

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efter

  1. Alternative form of æfter

Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar.

Preposition

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efter

  1. after

Adverb

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efter (not comparable)

  1. after

Conjunction

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efter

  1. after

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse eptir, from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (more aft, further behind), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (further behind, further away), comparative form of *apo- (off, behind).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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efter (not comparable)

  1. (only used predicatively) slow (from notion of behind others)
    Han är lite efter
    He is a bit slow

Adverb

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efter (comparative mer efter, superlative mest efter)

  1. after

Preposition

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efter

  1. after; subsequent; later in time than or later in a sequence than
    Jag ska sova efter maten
    I will take a nap after my meal
    Jag kommer vara proppmätt efter att ha ätit
    I will be really full after having eaten
    Jag öppnade paketet efter att jag kom hem
    I opened the package after I got home
  2. for (seeking, in pursuit of)
    att ringa efter hjälp
    to call for help
  3. by; as in one by one, one after another
    en efter en
    one by one
  4. by; in a manner conforming or corresponding to
    Sortera dem efter storlek och färg
    Sort them by size and color
  5. by; using the rules or logic of
    Varje gång hon flyttar in någonstans bygger hon om källaren efter eget tycke
    Whenever she moves into a new house she always rebuilds the basement to her own taste

Derived terms

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West Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian efter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar (more aft, further behind).

Preposition

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efter

  1. behind

Further reading

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  • efter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011