Talk:past

Obsolete verb?
May have been a verb form of pass, once. See Vicars, Virgil: "Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately." Equinox ◑ 01:13, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's an old spelling of what we now spell . But did it occur as such in modern English? —CodeCat 01:17, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I suspect it's used so at least in the phrase past master. --Droigheann (talk) 12:16, 7 May 2017 (UTC)


 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 16:23, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

past subjunctive
since we already have past perfect etc... --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:08, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

RFM discussion: April–October 2016
"Adverb" Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
 * Ignore them, we'll play past them.
 * Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.

This seems to me to be a preposition sense, possibly identical to one already under that L2. DCDuring TALK 11:02, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * , I agree. It should be moved to the Preposition header. — Eru·tuon 15:29, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

let past
what's its meaning in let past? --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:49, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * : "allow". The "let past" entry already says "allow" in the definition. Did you read it? Equinox ◑ 20:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * past doesn't mean allow because there's no verb to past but its eymology  is  let someone (get) past --Backinstadiums (talk) 21:45, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * It's like "let me in!", "let me out!", "let them free". Equinox ◑ 03:47, 15 February 2021 (UTC)

in times past
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+times+past --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:20, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

this past
A meeting in Brussels this past weekend Similarly to this coming--Backinstadiums (talk) 20:37, 3 April 2022 (UTC)