BEFORE

EstablishedNSM prime · relational

earlier in time

How each language says it

English

before

French

avant

Hindi

पहले

Telugu

ముందు

Tamil

முன்

Related atoms

oppositeAFTER

Meanings built with BEFORE

3 meanings use this atom in their decomposition.

the state of being new
STATE_OF(NEG(BEFORE))
newness
nouveauté
नयापन
కొత్తదనం
புதுமை
what is kept in mind
HAVE(KNOW, BEFORE)
memory
mémoire
याद
జ్ఞాపకం
நினைவு
with care
DEGREE(HAVE(THINK, HAVE(BEFORE, DO)))
carefully
soigneusement
सावधानीपूर्वक
జాగ్రత్తగా
கவனமாக

Semantic atoms are an engineering interlingua, not a theory of human cognition.