in the past

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in the past

1. (This entry is a translation hub.)
   • 1951 May, “Track Layout at Euston”, in Railway Magazine, page 290:

     No major platform improvements have been possible in the past because the piers of an overbridge at the north end of the station prevented respacing of the tracks.

Antonyms

• in the future

Translations

at a past time

• Arabic: فِي ٱلْمَاضِي (fī l-māḍī)
• Armenian: առաջ (hy) (aṙaǰ), անցյալում (ancʻyalum), նախկինում (naxkinum)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 從前／从前 (zh) (cóngqián), 在先 (zh) (zàixiān), 以往 (zh) (yǐwǎng), 昔日 (zh) (xīrì), 早先 (zh) (zǎoxiān), 以前 (zh) (yǐqián), 曾經／曾经 (zh) (céngjīng), 過去／过去 (zh) (guòqù)

• Czech: v minulosti
• Esperanto: estintece
• Estonian: minevikus
• Finnish: menneisyydessä, ennen (fi), ennen aikaan
• French: par le passé (fr), dans le passé (fr)
• Georgian: ადრე (adre), წარსულში (c̣arsulši)
• German: in der Vergangenheit (de)
• Greek: στο παρελθόν (sto parelthón)
• Hungarian: régen (hu), egykor (hu), valaha (hu), korábban (hu), előzőleg (hu), annak idején
• Japanese: これまで (kore made), 過去は (ja) (かこは, kako wa)
• Latin: in praeteritum
• Maore Comorian: harimwa wakati wav̄ira
• Murui Huitoto: jaife
• Polish: w przeszłości
• Portuguese: no passado
• Quechua: ñawpaqta
• Russian: в про́шлом (ru) (v próšlom)
• Spanish: en el pasado, antiguamente (es), antes (es), antaño (es)
• Swahili: katika wakati uliopita
• Swedish: förr (sv), förr i tiden (sv), i det förflutna (sv), i det förgångna
• Turkish: eskiden (tr), evvelce (tr), evvelden (tr), önceden (tr)
• Vietnamese: trước đây (vi), hồi xưa, hồi ấy, hồi đó
• Yoruba: láyé àtijọ́, nígbà kan rí

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