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NounSino-Korean: 過去
- 1
past
A time that has passed
Korean definition: 지나간 때.
A people's past history is long remembered by its descendants.
My grandmother shed tears as she recalled painful memories of the war in the past.
- 2
history
A past incident or life.
Korean definition: 지나간 일이나 삶.
He liked to dig up other people's past and badmouth them.
She was sued for hiding her criminal past.
- 3
past tense
A lexical form indicating that the event, action or state denoted precedes the present moment of speech or a certain point of temporal reference.
Korean definition: 문법에서, 말하는 순간이나 기준이 되는 어떤 때보다 이전에 일어난 사건이나 행동, 상태를 나타내는 것.
When "gada" is put in the past tense, the ending "-at-" is attached, making "gatda".
Today the foreign students studied the Korean past tense, which expresses events in the past.