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past

NounSino-Korean: 過去

  1. 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. 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. 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.