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Le lendemain de la fête, nous étions fatigués.

Le lendemain de la fête, nous étions fatigués.
The day after the party, we were tired.
From Lesson 316:Reported speech time words (le lendemain, la veille)·French

Breakdown of Le lendemain de la fête, nous étions fatigués.

fatigué
tired
la fête
the party
le lendemain
the next day, the day after

Questions & Answers about Le lendemain de la fête, nous étions fatigués.

Why use le lendemain instead of demain or le prochain jour?
Demain means tomorrow relative to right now. When narrating a past event, the next day is always le lendemain. Also, avoid le prochain jour; in French, prochain is used for future dates relative to today (like mardi prochain), not for sequencing events in a past-tense story.
Why is it le lendemain de la fête and not le lendemain après la fête?
The noun le lendemain already implies the day after. To connect it to an event, you simply use the preposition de (meaning of). Using après would be redundant, as if you were saying the day after after the party.
Why use the imperfect étions here rather than the passé composé avons été?
The imperfect tense is used here because being tired is an ongoing physical state or background condition in the past. If you used the passé composé (nous avons été), it would sound like a sudden, completed action rather than a continuous feeling that morning.
Does fatigués change if the speakers are all women?
Yes. Because it describes the subject nous using the state-of-being verb être, the adjective must agree. If the group is entirely female, you must add an e before the plural s, making it fatiguées.

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