Após a visita, vamos sair.

to go (future auxiliary)

Breakdown of Após a visita, vamos sair.

• sair: to leave
• a visita: the visit
• após: after; following

Questions & Answers about Após a visita, vamos sair.

What does após mean, and is it commonly used in Brazilian Portuguese?

Após means after.

In Brazilian Portuguese, após is correct, but it sounds a bit more formal or written than some other options. In everyday speech, many people would more naturally say depois da visita.

So these are both correct:

• Após a visita, vamos sair.
• Depois da visita, vamos sair.

The first sounds slightly more formal; the second is often more conversational.

Why is it a visita and not just visita?

Portuguese often uses definite articles more often than English does.

Here, a visita means the visit. It refers to a specific visit that both speaker and listener know about.

So:

• visita = visit
• a visita = the visit

In English, you might sometimes leave out the in similar situations, but in Portuguese the article is very natural here.

Why is it após a visita and not a contraction like após à visita?

Because após normally does not contract with the article a.

So:

• após + a visita → após a visita

This is different from other combinations in Portuguese, such as:

• depois de + a visita → depois da visita
• a + a → à

So após a visita is the normal form.