baada
preposition · adverb
After; later than a time or event.
Use baada ya before a noun or an infinitive: baada ya safari, after the journey. Its focus is time.
Origins
Baada comes from Arabic بعد (baʿda, “after”). It entered Swahili before the modern period and appears in baada ya to place something later in time.
Sources4
Thilo C. Schadeberg, World Loanword Database: Swahili donor record (2009), baada, page 358.
Baada comes from Arabic بَعْدَ (baˁda), “after”. It entered Swahili before the modern period and appears in baada ya, used to place something later in time.
Haspelmath and Tadmor / Lexibank, World Loanword Database CLDF (2009), wold-master/cldf/forms.csv row 36753.
Baada comes from Arabic بَعْدَ (baˁda), “after”. It entered Swahili before the modern period and appears in baada ya, used to place something later in time.
Charles Sacleux, Grammaire des dialectes Swahilis (1909), 284.
Use baada ya before a noun or an infinitive: baada ya safari, after the journey. Its focus is time.
Edward Steere, A Handbook of the Swahili Language as Spoken at Zanzibar (1884), 242.
After; later than a time or event. Use baada ya before a noun or an infinitive: baada ya safari, after the journey. Its focus is time.
Examples
Tutakula baada ya mkutano.
We will eat after the meeting.
Nipigie simu baada ya kazi.
Call me after work.
Nitakuja baada ya saa moja.
I will come after one hour.
Pumzika baada ya safari.
Rest after the journey.
Tulitembea baada ya chakula.
We walked after the meal.
Nitakulipa baada ya kufika.
I will pay you after arriving.
Funga mlango baada ya kuingia.
Close the door after entering.
Tutazungumza baada ya somo.
We will talk after the lesson.
Osha kikombe baada ya kutumia.
Wash the cup after using it.
