Illustration: In a Japanese family kitchen, a large analog wall clock has plain tick marks, with its minute hand at the first five-minute position and its hour hand slightly beyond three. Beneath it, a child who has been waiting for an afternoon snack points up at the hands with an expectant grin.

JLPT N4suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

過すぎ

sugi

past, after

Follows a time expression to mean “after.” Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 7時じ過すぎにね。

    See you a little past 7.

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  2. 10時じ過すぎには電話でんわをしないで下ください。

    Don’t call me up after ten o’clock.

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  3. もう5時じ過すぎです。

    It is already past five o’clock.

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Kanji in 過

  • 過overdo; exceedOnカKunすぎる・すごす・あやまち

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