To say that something happens "after" a certain period or "a [time period] later," use the temporal preposition спустя.
| after / later (a period of time) | спустя |
Спустя is followed by the Accusative case.
For inanimate masculine nouns like год (year) or месяц (month), the Accusative case looks exactly like the dictionary form.
| After a year, our cheese matured. | Спустя год наш сыр созрел. |
| The cheesemaker returned to the cellar a year later. | Сыровар вернулся в погреб спустя год. |
| A month later, the aging of the cheese requires high humidity. | Спустя месяц созревание сыра требует высокой влажности. |
For feminine nouns ending in -я, such as неделя (week), the ending changes to -ю (неделю).
| A week later, the cheesemaker has new bacteria for fermentation. | Спустя неделю у сыровара есть новые бактерии для ферментации. |
When combining спустя with numbers like два (two) or три (three), the number takes the Accusative inanimate form and the following noun takes the Genitive singular.
| After two months of aging, the bacteria change the taste. | Спустя два месяца созревания бактерии меняют вкус. |
| Let the fermentation continue, and the cheese will ripen three months later. | Пусть ферментация продолжается, и сыр созреет спустя три месяца. |
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