This is the 4437th most frequent Arabic word.
وبعدما
"After" or "and after that."
The word 'وبعدما' is used to introduce a temporal clause indicating an action that occurred after the completion of another action.
وبعدما أنهيت عملي، ذهبت لرؤية صديقي.
After I finished my work, I went to see my friend.
Here, 'وبعدما' signifies the act of thinking following the lack of certainty, marking a sequence in logical progression.
لم أكن واثقًا مما يجب فعله وبعدما فكرت برهة، قررت التحدّث مع معلمي.
I wasn’t sure what to do, and after thinking for a while, I decided to speak to my teacher.
In this example, 'وبعدما' introduces the event of finishing the book, which precedes the action of writing the report.