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English
Etymology
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Noun
efter (plural efters)
- (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
- John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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Danish
Etymology
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
Preposition
efter
- after; subsequent; later in time than
Related terms
Adverb
efter
- later, afterwards (in time)
- after (in a sequence)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
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
efter
- (Riksmål) after; subsequent; later in time than
Related terms
Adverb
efter
- (Riksmål) later, afterwards (in time)
- (Riksmål) after (in a sequence)
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Old English
Preposition
efter
- alternative form of æfter
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English after, from Old English æfter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar.
Preposition
efter
Adverb
efter (not comparable)
Conjunction
efter
References
- “efter”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Swedish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
efter (not comparable)
- (only used predicatively) slow (from notion of behind others)
- Han är lite efter
- He is a bit slow
Adverb
Preposition
efter
- 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
- for (seeking, in pursuit of)
- att ringa efter hjälp
- to call for help
- by; as in one by one, one after another
- en efter en
- one by one
- by; in a manner conforming or corresponding to
- Sortera dem efter storlek och färg
- Sort them by size and color
- 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
Etymology
From Old Frisian efter, from Proto-West Germanic *aftar (“more aft, further behind”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
efter
Further reading
- “efter”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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