After

See also: after, æfter, and after-

German

Etymology

From Middle High German after, from Old High German aftero ("rear; behind; below"; compare Old High German aftar (“after”, preposition, adverb)), from Proto-Germanic *after, *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epóteros (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *h₂epó (“off, behind”). Compare Dutch achter, Danish efter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaftɐ/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈaːftɐ/ (quite common; via English after, given the word’s infrequency in speech)

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

After m (strong, genitive Afters, plural After)

1. (anatomy, formal, literary) anus
2. (obsolete) buttocks, backside

Declension

Declension of After [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	After	die	After
genitive	eines	des	Afters	der	After
dative	einem	dem	After	den	Aftern
accusative	einen	den	After	die	After

Synonyms

(anus):

• Arschloch
• Anus
• Darmausgang
• Poloch

Derived terms

(anus):

• Afterlecken
• Afterlecker
• Aftersausen
• Afterschließer (anal sphincter)

Related terms

• after-

Further reading

• “After” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “After” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “After” in Duden online
• Friedrich Kluge (1883), “After”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891