过 guò in a sentence
Pass (cross - exceed - [past tense indicator])
过 (guò) means Pass (cross - exceed - [past tense indicator]). Below are 24 of the 36 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
你吃 过 中国菜吗？
Nǐ chī guo Zhōngguó cài ma?
Have you ever eaten Chinese food?
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 过
姐姐今天 过 生日。
Jiějie jīntiān guò shēngrì.
My older sister is celebrating her birthday today.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 姐姐
过 马路要注意车。
Guò mǎlù yào zhùyì chē.
Watch out for cars when crossing the road.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 注意
过 去这里没有地铁。
Guòqù zhèlǐ méiyǒu dìtiě.
In the past there was no subway here.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 过去
过 去的事就别想了。
Guòqù de shì jiù bié xiǎng le.
Stop thinking about what's past.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 过去
后来他就没再来 过 。
Hòulái tā jiù méi zài lái guo.
After that he never came again.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 后来
From the graded readers
一个下午就这样 过 去了。
yīgè xiàwǔ jiù zhèyàng guòqù le / liǎo / liào.
A whole afternoon had gone, just like that.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
不 过 我从来没有后悔 过 。
búguò wǒ cónglái méiyǒu hòuhuǐ guò.
But I have never regretted it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
去年我考试没考好，很难 过 。
qùnián wǒ kǎoshì méi kǎo hǎo / hào, hěn nán'guò.
Last year I did badly in an exam and felt terrible.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Chinese Teacher
退货的 过 程比我想的顺利多了。
tuì huò de / dì guòchéng bǐ wǒ xiǎng de / dì shùnlì duōle.
The return went far more smoothly than I'd expected.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Shopping Online
不 过 对我来说，名次并不重要。
búguò duì wǒ láishuō, míngcì bìngbù zhòngyào.
But the placing wasn't what mattered to me.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
等我醒 过 来的时候，已经五点了。
děng wǒ xǐng guòlái de / dì shíhou, yǐjīng wǔ diǎn le / liǎo / liào.
By the time I woke up it was already five.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
周末虽然短，可是我 过 得很开心。
zhōumò suīrán duǎn, kěshì wǒ guòde hěn kāixīn.
The weekend was short, but I enjoyed it.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My Weekend
我从来没见 过 她这么年轻的样子。
wǒ cónglái méi jiànguò tā zhème niánqīng de / dì yàngzi.
I had never seen her looking that young.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · An Old Photograph
From the travel phrasebook
我对花生 过 敏。
Wǒ duì huāshēng guòmǐn.
I'm allergic to peanuts.
Travel phrasebook · Ordering in a restaurant
我对青霉素 过 敏。
Wǒ duì qīngméisù guòmǐn.
I'm allergic to penicillin.
Travel phrasebook · Pharmacy and emergencies
过 appears in 36 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 过
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 过
How is 过 used in a sentence?
This page shows 36 sentences using 过 (guò, "Pass (cross - exceed - [past tense indicator])"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 过 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 过 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 过 an HSK word?
Yes — 过 is on the official HSK 2 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 2 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 过?
The dictionary page for 过 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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