N5 grammar

〜後で

After doing

Formation

後で marks what comes next, and here the verb takes the plain past even when the plan is in the future. It is the mirror image of 前に, tense rule included. With a noun, add の.

Examples

〜後で is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. My legs ached after the long walk.

  2. After climbing Mt Fuji I got the inspiration for a poem.

  3. She agreed to my plan after I had given a little.

  4. After I got on board a train, I found I had left my wallet behind at home.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.