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τότε
then /ˈto.te/
adverbA1#48 most common
Also: at that time, back then, in that case
Example sentences
Τότε ήμουν μικρός.
Back then I was little.
Πρώτα θα φάμε και τότε θα φύγουμε.
First we'll eat and then we'll leave.
Δεν ήξερα τότε ότι έλεγε ψέματα.
I didn't know then that he was lying.
Αν δεν προσέξεις, τότε θα έχεις πρόβλημα.
If you're not careful, then you'll have a problem.
Μέχρι τότε, είχαμε ήδη ζήσει σε μια άλλη πόλη.
Until then, we had already lived in another city.
Από τότε που τον γνώρισα, η ζωή μου άλλαξε ριζικά.
Ever since I met him, my life has changed radically.
Word family
ὅτεwhen (relative)
πότεwhen? (question)ποτέever, sometime, (with negation) neverἔκτοτεsince then, ever since
Etymology
Inherited from Ancient Greek τότε, formed from the demonstrative pronominal stem το- (the same το- seen in the article ὁ, ἡ, τό) plus the adverbial element -τε. It belongs to a tight set of correlative time adverbs with ὅτε ('when', relative) and πότε ('when?', interrogative). The stem goes back to the Proto-Indo-European demonstrative *to-, the source of many 'that/the/then' words across the family.
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