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Learners of English as a second language usually know the word then once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning then meaning

What does then mean?

Definitions in simple English

then Preposition

— At that time; not now. Then she was little. Now she is big. The then president did a lot of developmental activities.

— After something else. First, I cook the food; then I eat it, and then I wash the plates.

— Then shows the result of a condition. If she is happy, then I'm happy too.

then

— adverb (= so, and so, and then) subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors) then he left go left first, then right first came lightning, then thunder we watched the late movie and then went to bed and so home and to bed

— adverb in that case or as a consequence if he didn't take it, then who did? keep it then if you want to the case, then, is closed you've made up your mind then? then you'll be rich

— adverb at that time I was young then prices were lower back then science as it was then taught

— noun that time; that moment we will arrive before then we were friends from then on

— adjective at a specific prior time the then president

Synonyms then synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as then?

then English » English

so

at that time

afterwards

after that

therefore

and

next

later

well

and then

thereafter

there

now

thereupon

in that case

after

thus

subsequently

that

when

and so

but

afterward

accordingly

only then

consequently

well then

that time

hence

at this time

also

so that

since

in those days

if so

at the time

at that moment

whereupon

this is

that way

so then

in that place

furthermore

besides

again

additionally

while

whereafter

too

this time

Topics then topics

What do people use then to talk about?

States Time Relative time Before

After

• What words are used to link events when telling a story?
  and and then then having...-en after thereafter thereon thereupon whereupon upon

Grammar Connected with, related Dependency relations

Result

• What words indicate the result of something?
  result outcome end to result in to lead to wages to end up being have as a consequence therefore so then consequently as a result for this reason with the result that so that as a result to cause which caused so that that accordingly then hence and so yield has the effect of

States

Time

• What words indicate that something is happening at some time?
  when upon thereupon then at be at be on -'s time

States Time

Indefinite time

• What words refer to an indefinite time?
  when then sometime someday anytime onetime whenever approximate approximately

States Time Relative time Order, sequence

Next

• What words indicate that an event happens next?
  next right afterwards the day after then

Grammar Part of speech Conjunctions

Clause conjunctions

• What conjunctions join two clauses?
  and or while then if because

Grammar Part of speech Conjunctions

Sentence conjunctions

• What conjunctions join two sentences?
  then so

Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of transition

• What words are used to join two clauses or sentences without specifying the relationship between them?
  and then but now it happened that it came to pass that one day my next topic is my next point is now about

Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of emphasis

• What words indicate that a phrase or sentence is important?
  then indeed surely so certainly in fact actually how you know really sure just you know don't you that how much more emphatically absolutely without question no way of course obviously you've got to be kidding it is just that the only thing is one thing that in reality only that as it were just as you can see as you know without a doubt don't you remember I am convinced that

States Time Aspectual time Start something

Since, from

• What words indicate that something will start in the future and continue?
  from then on starting then

States Time Aspectual time Future

Immediately

• What words indicate that someone does something immediately without thinking about it?
  then and there

States Time Aspectual time Once

Sometimes

• What words indicate that an event happens sometimes?
  sometimes occasionally every so often once in a while at times now and again now and then from time to time

Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations

And, also

• What words indicate that you are adding another thought to a previous one?
  and also too besides besides this as well so do I/so has she/so are they in addition not to mention likewise both...and and also again further in addition to not only...but also some...others first...then let me add

Examples then examples

How do I use then in a sentence?

Simple sentences

If you see a mistake, then please correct it.

Three years have passed since then.

And then he sat down himself.

Then his mother thought.

You say one thing and then act just the opposite.

I apologized, but even then she wouldn't speak to me.

He did not have anything with him then.

She writes to her son every now and then.

Bob ate the snail, then vomited.

Just a second, please. Straight and then to the right, is that it?

So, straight, then to the right, and then?

Then there is a problem.

Then what?

And then?

If you didn't know me that way then you simply didn't know me.

I will play Sudoku then instead of continuing to bother you.

If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.

I was planning on going to the beach today, but then it started to rain.

If there's no solution, then there's no problem.

If I showed you my house, my neighborhood back then, would you understand where I am from?

You should only count on yourself--but even then, not too much.

After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.

I wish you had told me the truth then.

You should have taken a chance then.

I cannot believe you did not see him then.

Movie subtitles

Then go! I won't stop you.

Then, did he come to find me all the way from Australia?

Make me sad again, and I'll really die then.

Sure, if you pays.then I'll.

And then to abandone Richard who she loved. How hard it must be not to die. Take it easy, ma'am.

Don't want it? Then don't do it.

If you don't want to answer me, then you don't have to.

Well then, please come with me for a little bit!

Until last week? Then, what are you now?

Then it didn't have to be me.

Then to Shinjuku.

If you're too uncontrollable, then.

If it has the property of light, then reflection is also possible.

If C.C. is my accomplice, then I have to use that.

Uh, yes. Well then, please come with me for a little bit!

Then, what are you now?

Then first we have to support it!

What do you think will happen then?

Then will you do this with plain little Euphy?

Then we should keep the experimental adapted organism here?

And then We discovered the nebulae.

But back then there was only a small number of participants, because students could not attend and also because travel was difficult during the war.

Yet, after a year and a halt he had not made much progress and then he did something wrong and the entire receiver caught fire.

It then drops a bit, rises again to an even higher maximum and finally drops back to zero.

He then determined where in the Galaxy the hydrogen atoms with different velocities were located.

Then I package them and get them ready for distribution to all the hungry kids in the yard the next day.

Well, maybe if I had a bunch of flying reindeer, then maybe it wouldn't be so hard for me to get the product into the yard.

And then my body got all tingly, and my chest got numb.

Well, then, why would you do that to me?

Then, when he did, I made this huge deal about turning my back on him.

Then the kids would turn against Frankie, and I could take over the peanut racket.

So then we had to ask ourselves, where was the fucking hideout, and where were they launching the balloons from?

One side hits, the other hits back worse, and then those guys want revenge for that, so they hit back even harder.

And then those guys want revenge for that, so they hit back even harder.

But then he sent me this note asking me to meet him, so I started to think maybe he wasn't a jerk.

But then when we met, I started to think, maybe he was a jerk. Again.

But nobody scored then either, so it was continued at lunch.

And no one scored then either, so it was continued next recess.

Your dad into cars then?

News and current affairs

Wouldn't it be paradoxical, then, if financial alchemy could make an ingot of gold worth dramatically more?

Then something happened last spring: my sister Emily discovered that she had cancer and had a double mastectomy.

Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.

But then technology, demographics, and globalization brought dramatic new challenges that the neoclassical approach could not foresee.

But revelations about the nuclear weapons smuggling network organized by A. Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's bomb, confirm the danger I predicted back then.

He was then told to identify himself.

Why, then, do the most advanced countries, in particular, take on the risk of a mega-catastrophe by seeking to create energy from radioactive fission?

Not only do these farmers then feed their families, but they also can begin to earn market income and to save for the future.

In 2004, General Viktor Cherkesov, then Putin's representative in northwest Russia, published an essay that glorified the KGB as the only unspoiled authority in a corrupted country.

What, then, might be the prospects of a negotiated peace between two peoples with claims to the same land?

Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.

Kagame then suggested giving every country an annual per capita quota for CO2 emissions, and allowing developing countries that are below the quota to trade their excess quota with countries that are above theirs.

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, America committed itself to protect global ecosystems, yet little has been seen or heard from US policy makers on this issue since then.

The elections last November that brought the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power were preceded by a dispute between the members of the then-ruling coalition over enacting the reforms demanded by the EU.

Since then, the index has climbed above 10,000.

Then I got distracted for about 40 years.

The kids loved it, and I'm sure some of them decided then and there to study math and science.

This deal could then be given teeth by the UN Security Council.

During 2002-2006, I led the United Nations Millennium Project, which aimed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, for then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

One or both of these agencies would then have an account with several billion dollars.

If that is true, then Sarkozy missed the romantic opportunity of a lifetime.

In the US, when oil prices go up, incomes in Texas and Montana rise, which means that these states then contribute more tax revenue to the federal budget, thereby helping out the rest of the country.