How to say “later” in 42 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- después/desˈpwes/ Spanish
- მოგვიანებით[mo̞ɡʷiäne̞bitʰ] Georgian
- പിന്നെ/pin̪n̪e/ Malayalam
- потому[pɔˈtɔmʊ] Ukrainian
“later” in Spanish: después · German: später · Portuguese: depois · Turkish: sonra
It is commonest in Malayalam, where പിന്നെ is the 18th most used word.
Later in other languages, A to Z
- Albanian ani/ani/ then, later; later #1,616
- Basque gero/ɡeɾo/ #57
- Bosnian kasnije/kǎsnijeː/ later on, afterwards #310
- Bulgarian после[ˈpɔslɛ] later, afterwards #197
- Catalan després[dəsˈpɾes] #126
- Chinese 再見/t͡saɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/ goodbye; see you later #755
- Croatian kasnije/kǎsnijeː/ later on, afterwards #365
- Czech později[ˈpozɟɛjɪ] #445
- Danish efter/ˈɛfdɐ/ after; subsequent; later in time than #83
- Dutch straks[strɑks] later today, shortly, in a moment #590
- English after/ˈæftəɹ/ Behind; later in time; following #161
- Esperanto poste/ˈposte/ afterwards, later #127
- Estonian pärast/ˈpærɑst/ after, afterwards, following, later, past,… #76
- Finnish näkemiin/ˈnækemiːn/ see you later, see you, goodbye #1,180
- French après/a.pʁɛ/ after, later than in time #146
- Galician tarde/ˈtaɾde/ late, later #204
- Georgian მოგვიანებით[mo̞ɡʷiäne̞bitʰ] #426
- German später/ˈʃpɛːtɐ/ #375
- Greek μετά/meˈta/ afterwards, later #105
- Hebrew לאחר/laˈχaʁ/ After, at a later time than #300
- Hungarian majd[ˈmɒjd] sometime, later #60
- Icelandic sjáumst[ˈsjauː.ʏmst] see you soon!, see you later!, later #276
- Indonesian sebentar/səbənˈtar/ #246
- Italian dopo/ˈdo.po/ after, later #154
- Korean 이따가[it͈a̠ɡa̠] a little later; after a while; a short time… #1,130
- Latvian pēc[pɛː̂ts] after, afterwards, later, later on #59
- Macedonian после[ˈpɔslɛ] afterwards, later #173
- Malay kelak/kəˈlaʔ/ soon, later, afterwards #2,338
- Malayalam പിന്നെ/pin̪n̪e/ later; at some unspecified time in the future #18
- Persian بعدا[bæʔ.d̪æn] afterwards, later #518
- Polish potem/ˈpɔ.tɛm/ then, later, afterwards #201
- Portuguese depois/deˈpojs/ #112
- Russian увидимся[ʊˈvʲidʲɪmsʲə] see you later #542
- Serbian posle/ˈposlɛ/ #266
- Slovak neskôr/ˈɲɛsku̯ɔr/ #240
- Spanish después/desˈpwes/ later, afterwards, afterward, post #160
- Tagalog mamaya/mamaˈjaʔ/ later; shortly #307
- Tamil பின்னர்/pɪnːɐɾ/ after, afterwards, subsequently, later, later… #118
- Telugu భావి/ˈbʰaːʋi/ future, later, subsequent #1,518
- Turkish sonra/son.ɾɑ/ later, after, afterwards, post- #44
- Ukrainian потому[pɔˈtɔmʊ] #128
- Vietnamese sau[saw˧˧] #124
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
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