expression / adjective:

• past redemption; sinful ➜ 業の深い

noun:

• wise men of the past

noun / ~の noun:

• past perfect tense - Linguistics term

expression:

• don't dwell on the past; let bygones be bygones - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to become a thing of the past

noun:

• past life therapy; past life regression

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
• to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
• to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
• to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
• to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
• to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
• to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
• to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
• to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
• to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
• to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
• to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
• to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• ordinary; in the past; usual; regular

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way
• to press and cut

expression / noun:

• humiliation of defeat in battle; past humiliation by others; shame of an unendurable disgrace - proverb ➜ 会稽の恥を雪ぐ【かいけいのはじをすすぐ】

expression:

• complete reversal of values or ways of thinking (over time); What appeared wrong in the past now appears right; realizing and regretting the past errors of one's ways - four character idiom

noun:

• dark history; dark past; something one wants to forget or pretend never happened - slang

expression / noun:

• bygones; the past; past event

noun:

• academic predecessor; scholars of the past; senior scholar ➜ 後学

noun:

• decluttering; clearing out past accumulation; minimalism

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go too far; to go past
• to go to extremes; to overdo it

noun:

• young ascetic of the Himalayas; one of the Buddha's past lives - Buddhism term ➜ 釈迦

noun:

• aorist tense (Greek); past-perfective tense - Linguistics term

noun:

• veteran; past master

~の noun / adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• very recently; in the very recent past

auxiliary verb:

• indicates recollection or realization (i.e. of hearsay or the past); can form a poetic past tense
• indicates continuation from the past to the present
• end; conclusion - also written with the ateji 鳧

expression / noun:

• skill learned in one's former days; using one's experience from the past - idiom

godan -いく／-ゆく verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to pass; to go past

noun:

• gold driver's license; driver's license awarded to drivers who haven't been in an accident in the past 5 years

expression:

• let bygones be bygones; the past is the past, the present is the present [literal] - proverb