Tras la reunión, volvimos a casa.

Yes. Tras means after in this sentence, so Tras la reunión means After the meeting.

For a learner, the main thing to know is that tras and después de often mean the same thing here:

• Tras la reunión
• Después de la reunión

Both are correct. Tras can sound a little more concise and sometimes slightly more formal or written, but it is completely normal Spanish.

Yes, absolutely.

Después de la reunión, volvimos a casa means the same thing. A native speaker might choose one or the other based on style:

• tras = shorter, sometimes a bit more elegant or formal
• después de = very common and very straightforward

So as a learner, it is useful to recognize tras, but después de is also a very safe choice.

Because Spanish usually uses the definite article when talking about a specific thing already understood in the situation.

Here, la reunión means the meeting. It refers to a particular meeting, not just meetings in general.

Compare:

• Tras la reunión = after the meeting
• Tras una reunión = after a meeting

So la shows that it was a specific meeting.

Spanish often leaves out subject pronouns because the verb ending already shows who is doing the action.

Here, volvimos already means we returned or we went back. The ending -imos tells you the subject is we.

So:

• Volvimos a casa = we went back home
• Nosotros volvimos a casa = also correct, but more explicit

You would usually add nosotros only for emphasis, contrast, or clarity.

Volvimos is the preterite form of the verb volver, meaning to return or to go back.

In this sentence, volvimos means:

• we returned
• we went back

It is the first person plural form, so it matches we.

A useful comparison:

• vuelvo = I return / I am returning
• volvemos = we return / we are returning
• volvimos = we returned / we went back

So the sentence is talking about a completed past action.

Because the sentence describes a completed action in the past.

The sequence is clear:

1. the meeting happened
2. after that, we went back home

That kind of finished event normally uses the preterite in Spanish.

• volvimos = we went back / we returned

If you used the imperfect, it would suggest an ongoing, habitual, or background action, which does not fit as well here.

Because casa often works like home in English when you mean the place where someone lives.

So:

• volver a casa = to go back home
• estar en casa = to be at home

But a la casa usually means to the house, referring more to the physical building as a specific object.

Compare:

• Volvimos a casa = We went back home
• Volvimos a la casa = We went back to the house

The second one sounds more like you are talking about a particular house as a location, not simply home.

Yes, very common.

Volver a casa is a standard way to say to go back home or to return home. It is one of the most natural ways to express that idea in Spanish.

Other common expressions with volver are:

• volver al trabajo = to go back to work
• volver al hotel = to go back to the hotel
• volver tarde = to come back late

So this sentence uses a very natural everyday pattern.

Because Tras la reunión is an introductory time expression placed at the beginning of the sentence.

The comma helps separate that opening part from the main clause:

• Tras la reunión, volvimos a casa.

It is similar to English:

• After the meeting, we went home.

In short sentences, punctuation can vary a little, but this comma is very natural and standard.

Not exactly.

• fuimos a casa = we went home
• volvimos a casa = we went back home / we returned home

Volvimos adds the idea of returning to a place you had been before, usually your home. So it suggests that you were away from home and then came back.

In this sentence, that makes sense because the meeting happened somewhere else, and afterwards you returned home.