após
Portuguese, preposition
após is spelled A-P-Ó-S (4 letters) and appears 490 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 190th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Após is a Portuguese preposition meaning “after (later in time)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, apôs is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of apor”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “atrás de”.
What does após mean in English?
preposition
- 1
after (later in time)
Almoçaremos após a aula.
- 2
past (further in location)
O prédio fica logo após a escola.
- 3
after (a great amount of)
Um ano inteiro de fracasso após fracasso.
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of apor
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. em seguimento
preposition: 1. atrás de 2. depois de
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is após in Portuguese?
após appears 490 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).