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过去

guò qù

HSK 2 · word 700 of 3,000

Meaning

• (in the) past; former; previous
• to go over; to pass by

Example sentence

Characters in 过去

• 过 guò to cross
• 去 qù to go

过 to cross plus 去, away from the speaker. Going over there — and as a noun, the past that has gone by.

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