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antaño

in days gone by

adverb ahn-TAH-nyoh Rare
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Origin: Latin ante annum (before the year)

Also means

formerly

Usage Note

Antaño is a literary or formal adverb evoking a vague but distant past, roughly equivalent to 'in bygone days' or 'of old'. It is not interchangeable with antes (neutral 'before') and carries a nostalgic or rhetorical tone. Its opposite, hogaño ('nowadays'), is now quite rare.

Examples

"Antaño, este pueblo era muy próspero."

Natural Translation

In days gone by, this village was very prosperous.

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