then
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1.0
At a particular time in a sequence
- adverb
- /ðɛn/
:
entonces
- What are we going to do until then?
- Back then
- then and now
- knew then
until then, do not waste your money.
- until then, do not waste your money.
- Incredibly, she then began to laud her father's treatment of women.
- This was, this was like real estate back then.
- I said, no, I, I think we'll, we should wait for her then, don't you think?
- I think because, you know, the Bear Bryant sort of like legends back then, no offense.
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Examples
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All right, see you then for Kenzie.
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Not my world, I thought then, for I was American, the first Yankee in my family.
Academic text (2011) -
I hope by then you wanna be on the moon.
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Oh gosh, I had one and then I lost it.
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But the U.S. drug problem was at least as severe then as it is now.
Academic text (2011) -
Then we can leave immediately.
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Then the next day they said he transferred out.
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If you liked it then, you'll like it now and vice versa.
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Then I met you.
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If you finish your homework early, then you can go outside to play.
Synonyms
just then
vsthen
52
1.7
At the exact moment something happens
is a more general time marker referring to that time in past or future
45
3.2
Do something immediately at that moment
is used simply to state a time rather than demand immediate action
Idioms
How Precise
Surface Forms
then positive
Etymology
Then comes from an old English word þænne that meant 'at that time'. So, then points to the next time in a sequence, as in 'do this, then do that'.