noun:

• past progressive tense - Linguistics term

noun:

• past, present and future; three temporal states of existence

noun:

• endless cycle of rebirth through the three worlds of past, present, and future existences - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• past (exam) question collection

noun:

• past participle - Linguistics term

noun:

• the past

noun:

• past (exam) question collection - abbreviation ➜ 過去問題集

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to view the past with nostalgia

noun:

• developing new ideas based on study of the past; learning from the past - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to run past; to run by
• to go too far ahead

expression:

• the past; bygone days (years, age, etc.) ➜ 来し方
• the course (route) one has come by; the direction one came from

expression:

• danger past, God forgotten

noun:

• countries that currently use Chinese characters in their writing, or have used in their recent past - abbreviation ➜ 漢字文化圏【かんじぶんかけん】

noun:

• spirits of past emperors

expression:

• legacy of the past

noun:

• institutions bequeathed from the past

noun:

• past perfect tense; pluperfect - Linguistics term

expression / auxiliary verb:

• auxiliary verb indicating past condition or occurrence (e.g. "was", "had been", etc.) - archaism

noun:

• past misdeed; past error; past folly; past sin

expression / noun:

• remote past; far ago; time immemorial

expression / noun:

• shadowy past; murky past ➜ 暗い

expression:

• danger past and God forgotten; once on shore, we pray no more; once it's past the throat, one forgets the heat (of the swallowed object) [literal] - proverb

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

noun:

• past geography

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• these past months