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awhile

Kanji 1311

Find out about a common term that means both "a short while" and "a long while," sometimes confusing native speakers! Learn to talk about tentatively set times, provisional agreements, and interim governments. And see how various ways of saying "It's been awhile!" or "He came back after awhile" have subtly different nuances, as do assorted terms that mean "for awhile."

Revision history:

May 21, 2021:

• p. 2: Updated the Henshall etymology.
• p. 6, photo caption: This is not a book but a very short work, so I changed the way I referred to it.
• p. 10: Added a link to the Kanshudo games.

Jan. 20, 2017: Originally published.