• Dutch: voorbij, voorbije, afgelopen
• French: passé
• German: vergangen
• Greek: περασμένος (perazménos) , παρελθών (parelthón) , πρότερος (próteros) , πρωτύτερος (protíteros) , τα περασμένα (ta perazména) n p
• Italian: passato
• Korean: 지나간 (jinagan)
• Maltese: passat , passata
• Russian: прошлый
• Serbian: prošli , prošla , próšlo
• Telugu: పూర్వపు (poorvapu)

• Dutch: voorbij, voorbije, verleden
• French: passé
• Greek: παρελθοντικός (pareltho[n]dikós)
• Italian: passato
• Korean: 과거의 (gwageo-ui)
• Serbian: prošli , prošla , próšlo

Adverb

1. in a direction that passes

   I watched him walk past

Translations

• Dutch: voorbij
• Greek: επέκεινα (epécina), πέρα (péra)
• Russian: мимо

Preposition

past

1. beyond in place, quantity or time

   the room past mine

   count past twenty

   past Midnight

Translations

• Dutch: voorbij, verder
• Greek: πέρα (péra)
• Irish: tar éis, i ndiaidh
• Norwegian: forbi, bortenfor

Related terms

• past master
• past participle
• past perfect
• past tense
• past it

Czech

Noun

past f

1. trap

Dutch

Verb

past

1. second person singular present tense of passen
2. third person singular present tense of passen

Slovene

Noun

past f

1. trap

The past is the portion of time that has already occurred; it is the opposite of the future. It is also contrasted with the present. It is also regarded as the conglomerate of events that happened in a certain point in time, within the Space-time continuum. The aforementioned conception is closely related to Albert Einstein's relativity theory.

Humans have recorded the past since ancient times, and to some extent, one of the defining characteristics of human beings is that they are able to record the past, recall it, remember it and confront it with the current state of affairs, thus enabling them to plan accordingly for the future, and to theorise about it as well.

In philosophy

According to presentism, the past does not strictly exist; however, the methods of all sciences study the world's past, through the process of evaluating evidence.

In physics

In classical physics the past is just a half of the timeline. In special relativity the past is considered as absolute past or the past cone. In Earth's scale the difference between "classical" and "relativist" past is less than 0.05 s, so it can be neglected in most cases.

In other fields

The past is the object of such fields as history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, chronology, geology, (historical geology), historical linguistics, law, paleontology, paleobotany, paleoethnobotany, palaeogeography, paleoclimatology, and cosmology.

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See also

• Antiquarian
• Fossil
• Memory
• Past tense
• Retro

References

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