Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese living room, an elderly man has fallen asleep while waiting beside a large hourglass. Almost all its sand now rests in the lower bulb, with the final thin trickle still falling.

JLPT N4verbLevel estimated by Bebop

過すぎる

sugiru

to pass, to elapse

Here it describes time passing. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

２週間しゅうかんが過すぎた。
Two weeks went by.
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時間じかんはあっという間まに過すぎる。
Time passes quickly.
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３０年ねんが過すぎました。
Thirty years passed.
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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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