then

adverb · adjective · noun · conjunctionA1

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Trạng từ

adverb

Comparative

den

1.
(not comparable)(temporal location) At that time.
He was happy then.
2.
(not comparable)(temporal location) Soon afterward.
He fixed it, then left.
Turn left, then right, then right again, then keep going until you reach the service station.
And then came an invitation to tonight's ball.
3.
(not comparable, sequence)Next in order of place.
There are three green ones, then a blue one.
4.
(not comparable)In addition; also; besides.
5.
(conjunctive, not comparable)In that case.
If it’s locked, then we’ll need the key.
Is it 12 o’clock already? Then it’s time for me to leave.
You don’t like potatoes? What do you want me to cook, then?
6.
(not comparable, sequence)At the same time; on the other hand.
That’s a nice shirt, but then, so is the other one.
The forms inheritress and inheritrix are used only in literature, and then but rarely.
7.
(UK, dialectal, not comparable)(UK, dialect, affirmation) Used to contradict an assertion.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

den

1.
(not comparable)Being so at that time.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

den

1.
That time.
It will be finished before then.

conjunction

den

1.
(alt of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of than.
2.
(alt of, misspelling)Misspelling of than.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

at the timeback in the dayand thenand sosubsequently sofollowed byaccordinglyas a resultconcurrentlytherewhileat that time at the time, back in the daysoon afterward and then, and so, subsequently, socontradiction

Cùng gốc / liên quan

and then everyone clappedand then everyone on the bus clappedand then someback thenbut thenbut then againeven a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and theneven thenevery now and thenfrom then ongo on thenif-then-elseif-then,if-then statementif-thenismjust thenlife's a bitch and then you dienow and thennow thenother thensell in May then go away

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English ne]]), ne]]), from Old English þonne, þanne, þænne (then, at that time), from *þan, from Proto-Germanic *þan (at that (time), then), from earlier *þam, from Proto-Indo-European *tóm, accusative masculine of *só (demonstrative pronoun, that).