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EN[pɑːst] [pæst] [-æst] [-ɑːst]
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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.
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    Definition of past in English Dictionary

  • NomPLpasts
    1. The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
      1. a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
    2. (grammar) The past tense.
    3. AdjectifCOMmore pastSUPmost past
      1. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
        1. 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.
      2. (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
        1. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
          1. 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.
        2. (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
          1. past tense ‎
      3. AdverbeCOMmore pastSUPmost past
        1. in a direction that passes.
          1. I watched him walk past
        2. Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
          1. Ignore them, we'll play past them.
          2. Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
      4. Préposition
        1. beyond in place, quantity or time.
          1. the room past mine
          2. count past twenty
          3. past midnight
      5. Plus d'exemples
        1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
          • Theirs is a nonrivalry of sorts, considering the many lopsided outcomes of past encounters between them, but it always proves to be intriguing.
          • 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.
          • I know in the past I've been a giant twat, but all the hard work I've done since then is to redeem myself. I just want to do something useful, and I'm sorry if I cock it up sometimes.
        2. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
          • 934) The men of science will climb grassy hillsides of [Easter] island to peer at hundreds of great stone faces that have so far out-sphinxed the sphinx in determined silence about the past.
          • Spreads on bond yields in a common currency today comove across emerging markets to a much higher degree than they did in the 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.
      • Partie du discours Hiérarchie
        1. Adjectifs
          • Adverbes
            • Noms
              • Noms Dénombrable
              • Prépositions
              Liens Connexes:
              1. en pasture
              2. en pastoral
              3. fr pastoral
              4. en pastor
              5. en paste
              Source: Wiktionnaire

              Meaning of past for the defined word.

              Grammaticalement, ce mot "past" est un adjectif. C'est aussi un adverbe. C'est aussi un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable. C'est aussi un préposition.
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