"past" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

past sustantivo

past + verbo
Kolokacji: 6
past comes • haunted by one's past • past makes • past includes • past influences • ...
verbo + past
Kolokacji: 41
know about one's past • forget the past • remember the past • reveal from the Welsh past • confront one's past • ...
adjetivo + past
Kolokacji: 125
recent past • distant past • glorious past • troubled past • ancient past • criminal past • long past • dark past • industrial past • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 35
(6) dark, secret, hidden
Kolokacji: 3
(10) mysterious, deep, personal
Kolokacji: 3
(13) rich, colorful, lurid
Kolokacji: 3
(15) American, German
Kolokacji: 2
(16) dim, shadowy
Kolokacji: 2
(17) shared, imperial, common
Kolokacji: 3
(18) sordid, notorious
Kolokacji: 2
(19) Soviet, revolutionary
Kolokacji: 2
(21) totalitarian, authoritarian
Kolokacji: 2
(22) colonial, simple, difficult
Kolokacji: 3
1. colonial past = kolonialna przeszłość colonial past
2. simple past = prosta przeszłość simple past
  • The present perfect is often used also for completed events where English would use the simple past.
  • French simple past is mostly used in a narrative way to tell stories and describe successive actions.
  • In the oral language, the simple past is rarely used except with story telling.
  • The first preterite can be compared with the simple past in English.
  • To fight the battle of the present, the young woman sent her thoughts into the simpler past.
  • The English simple past can express either of these concepts.
  • In the fifth example, only the simple past is possible.
  • In the remaining cases, both languages use a simple past.
  • The simple past is often close in meaning to the present perfect.
  • The simple past also has some uses in which it does not refer to a past time.
3. difficult past = trudna przeszłość difficult past
(25) geological, geologic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) evolutionary, ancestral
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cultural, human, immutable
Kolokacji: 3
(28) heroic, proud
Kolokacji: 2
(29) musical, pre-Islamic
Kolokacji: 2
(30) murky, misty
Kolokacji: 2
(32) classical, architectural
Kolokacji: 2
(33) idealized, idyllic, Unbroken
Kolokacji: 3
(34) military, militaristic
Kolokacji: 2
(35) prosperous, golden
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + past
Kolokacji: 16
about one's past • in the past • from the past • into the past • through one's past • ...

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