past
EN[pɑːst] [pæst] [-æst] [-ɑːst]US
Fpassé WPassé
- Le passé est d'abord un concept lié au temps : il est constitué de l'ensemble des configurations successives du monde et s'oppose au futur sur une échelle des temps centrée sur le présent.
- Le passé, et le temps en général, soulèvent des questions aporétiques complexes.
- NomPLpasts
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
- (grammar) The past tense.
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- AdjectifCOMmore pastSUPmost past
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
- The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
- past tense
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
- AdverbeCOMmore pastSUPmost past
- Préposition
- Plus d'exemples
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- He tried sneaking it past them, but they didn't cotton to his attempts.
- The warship rang its semihourly bell, announcing it was now half past 10 o'clock.
- In making this personal statement of my views, to which you are entitled, nothing that I say is intended either to postjudge the past or to prejudge the future.
- Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- [A]nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so. — Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past.
- It'll be in the hidden compartment of my bag when I go through the line, so don't worry, I'll be able to smuggle it past.
- This guy is right up on my tail, so I will slow down to let him past.
- Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
Definition of past in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionnaire