Translation
the past
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto, not borrowed: pasi ('to pass') plus the past active participle -int- plus the abstract suffix -ec-, so literally the quality of having passed. The root pasi comes from Latin passus, a step.
- Origin
- Esperanto
- Root
- pas- + -int- + -ec-
Examples
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We cannot change the past.
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He often talks about his family's past.
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In the past people travelled by ship.
Take the word apart and it teaches two suffixes at once: + + + o, the state of having passed. is built the same way from and the future participle --, and o gives the present. is the recorded past that gets written down; is simply time gone by.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 4: pasinteco, garantii, araba and 7 more words.