created sense approved 过去式/過去式 · guòqùshì · past tense — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
过去式 / 過去式
guòqùshì
past tense
a verb form used to show that an action or state happened in the past
guòqushì
过去 (literal) → 过去/過去 · guòqù · the past 式 (bound) → 式 · shì · [grammar]
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition
created sense approved 过去式/過去式 · guòqùshì · a thing of the past — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
过去式 / 過去式
guòqùshì
a thing of the past
refers to something that is over and done with, specifically something that has no relevance to the present
guòqushì
过去 (literal) → 过去/過去 · guòqù · the past 式 (bound) → 式 · shì · type
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition