Past tense

Definition

past /pɑ:st; US pæst/ adj ၁။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ(အခ်ိန္)။ in past years/centuries/ages ❍ in times past ❍ The time for discussion is past. ၂။ ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာ။ ယခင္။ ယမန္။ The past month has been a difficult one for him. ❍ I've seen little of her in the past few weeks. ၃။ အတိတ္။ …ေဟာင္း။ past happiness ❍ past and present students of the college ❍ past achievements/failures/generations/presidents ❍ Let's forget about who owes what—it's all past history. ၄။ ( grammar ) အတိတ္ကာလျပ။ The past tense of ‘take’ is ‘took’. n ၁။ the past [sing] (က) အတိတ္ကာလ။ ယခင္။ အလ်င္။ အရင္။ I've been there many times in the past. (ခ) အတိတ္ျဖစ္ရပ္။ memories of the past ❍ look back on/remember/regret the past. ၂။ [C] အတိတ္ရာဇဝင္။ ေနာက္ ေၾကာင္း။ နာမည္ပ်က္။ We know nothing of his past. ❍ She's a woman with a ‘past’. ၃။ (also past tense ) [sing] ( grammar ) (ဤအဘိဓာန္၌ pt ဟု အတိုေကာက္ သံုးသည္။ ) အတိတ္ကာလျပႀကိယာသဏၭာန္။ The past of the verb ‘take’ is ‘took’. prep ၁။ ( US also after ) (နာရီ) ထိုးၿပီး။ ေက်ာ္။ half past two ❍ ten (minutes) past six ❍ There's a bus at twenty minutes past the hour (ie at 1.20, 2.20, 3.20, etc). ❍ We arrived at two o'clock and left at ten past (ie ten minutes past two). ❍ It was past midnight when we got home. ၂။ အလြန္။ ေက်ာ္၍။ ျဖတ္၍။ လြန္၍။ We live in the house just past the church. ❍ If you look past the town hall you'll see the police station. ❍ She walked past the shop. ❍ He hurried past me without stopping. ၃။ (က) ေက်ာ္၍။ လြန္၍။ Unemployment is now past the 3 million mark. ❍ I didn't get past the first question in the exam. ❍ The flowers are past their best. (ခ) (ဂ႐ုစိုက္ စသည္) ႏိုင္စြမ္းမရိွေတာ့။ I'm past caring what happens to me. ဘာပဲျဖစ္လာျဖစ္လာ ငါမမႈေတာ့ဘူး၊ မၿဖံဳေတာ့ဘူး။ (ဂ) (အခ်ိန္၊ အရြယ္ကို) လြန္ (ခဲ့ၿပီ)။ He's past his prime. ❍ She's long past retirement age. adv, part ျဖတ္၍။ walk/march/go/rush past. ❏ past it [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ဗန္း) အိုပယ္ျဖစ္သည္။ In some sports you're past it by the age of 25 these days. ❍ That overcoat is looking decidedly past it. ❏ past master n ~ (in/of sth); ~ (at sth/doing sth) ဝိဇ္။ ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ကင္းသူ။ She's a past master at (the art of) getting what she wants. ❏ past participle n ( grammar ) (ဤအဘိဓာန္၌ pp ဟု အတိုေကာက္သံုးသည္။ ) အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာစကားတြင္ ပစၥဳပၸန္ႏွင့္ အတိတ္ ကာလျပ မူေသႀကိယာမ်ားအျဖစ္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ကမၼ ကာရက အျဖစ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ အခ်ဳိ႕ကို နာမဝိေသသန အျဖစ္ လည္းေကာင္း သံုးရေသာ beaten, sung, pretended စေသာ ႀကိယာသဏၭာန္။ ❏ past perfect adj, n = PLUPERFECT

Examples

1. I’ll meet you at half past five.
2. It’s exactly ten past three.
3. It was past midnight by the time we arrived.
4. I walked past several hotels on my way to the petrol station.
5. He got the ball and headed it past Mitchell.
6. The river winds its way past the picturesque village of Comrie.
7. The thieves somehow got past all the alarms.
8. She heard music coming from inside the van as it drove past.
9. Turn right a mile past the graveyard and you’ll see the church.
10. [just past] : You’ll find the town about 80 miles south of Missoula
11. just past Darby.
12. [right past] : I tried to catch his eye
13. but he stared right past me.
14. [straight past] : Tom seemed to be looking straight past me at the wall.
15. He was past his prime as a player by then.
16. I tried to read the book
17. but couldn’t get past the first chapter.
18. The months went past
19. and still no word from her.
20. The days seem to be just whizzing past.
21. I used to worry about him coming home late
22. but now I’m past caring.