直後
ちょくご
immediately following
JLPT N2 Common word
Meanings
Noun, Adverb
immediately following
Example sentences
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I'll have exams right after the summer holidays.
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He joined the company right after he got through high school.
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We started it again right after dinner.
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He came to see you right after you left.
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The country is very different from what it was just after the war.
More examples (5)
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In this dictionary the pronunciation comes right after the headword.
福島第一原子力発電所では、地震直後にすべての原子炉が停止した。
At the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, all the reactors stopped just after the quake.
私は花に水をやる必要はなかった。水をやった直後に雨が降り始めた。
I needn't have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it started raining.
駐禁で切符を切られた直後にUターン禁止でつかまった。運が悪いというか、弱り目に祟り目というか。
It wasn't my lucky day. First, I got a parking ticket and then things went from bad to worse when I got pulled over for making a U-turn.
第一次世界大戦が終わった直後、人々はそのように恐ろしく残酷な戦争が再び起こるだろうとは、夢にも思わなかった。
Soon after the end of World War 1, people never thought such a hateful and cruel war would break out again.