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How to Say ‘Especially after eating.’ in Italian

Soprattutto dopo mangiato.

soh-praht-too-toh DOH-poh mahn-JAH-toh

[soh-praht-too-toh DOH-poh mahn-JAH-toh]

💬 Usage Tip: dopo mangiato is a fixed, everyday way to say "after eating". It uses the past form mangiato where English uses "-ing". prima di mangiare "before eating" works the other way, with the basic verb form.

Phrase Breakdown

Soprattutto

[soh-praht-too-toh]

especially

More so than others.

Example

Questa è la mia parola, soprattutto.

This is my word, especially.

dopo mangiato.

DOH-poh mahn-JAH-toh

after eating

This is colloquial for 'after having eaten'. Say 'man-JAH-toh'; the 'i' is not pronounced separately.

Example

Facciamo una passeggiata dopo mangiato.

Let's take a walk after eating.

Words in this phrase

dopo

[DOH-poh]

after

A preposition used to talk about something happening later in time.

Example

Dopo l'evento ti ho mandato un'email di follow-up.

After the event I sent you a follow-up email.

mangiato

[mahn-JAH-toh]

eaten

Past participle of 'mangiare', to eat.

Example

Ho mangiato la pizza.

I ate pizza.

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