Vergangenheit

Related words

• Vergangenheitsbewältigung

  Coming to terms with the past

• Vorvergangenheit

  Pluperfect

• Mitvergangenheit

  The simple past tense, also known as the preterite, is a past tense form in German.

• Räumte

  Cleared

• Mentalitätsgeschichte

  History of mentalities

• Vokalwechsel

  A vowel change is an alteration of the vowel in a word stem that indicates grammatical information such as number or tense.

• Geschichtswissenschaft

  History (as an academic discipline)

• Verklärung

  Transfiguration, idealization

• Verbform

  Verb form

• gehabt

  "had" is the past participle form of the verb "to have". It is used to indicate the past.

• begonnen

  Begun

• erinnern

  to remember, to remind

• gekost

  Cost

• zurückverfolgen

  To trace back means to determine the origin or development of something by looking for traces or evidence in the past.

• uralt

  Ancient means very old, originating from a very distant past.

• früher

  earlier

• gebaut

  Built

• aufgewogen

  Weighed up

• metadiegetisch

  Metadiegetic

• präterital

  Imperfect tense, past tense

• retrospektiv

  Retrospective

• retrofuturistisch

  Retrofuturistic

• vulkanistisch

  Volcanistic

• verwichen

  past, elapsed

• beschwören

  To invoke, to conjure

• Zeitmaschine

  Time machine

• anspielen

  To allude

• Idealisierung

  Idealization

• Yttererde

  Ytteria is an obsolete term for yttrium oxide, a rare earth oxide formerly used in chemistry.

• Erinnerungskultur

  Culture of remembrance

• Nostalgikerin

  Nostalgic person (female)

• Nostalgiker

  nostalgic person

• getrunken

  Drunk

• gesehen

  seen

• gewesen

  Been

• gegangen

  "Gone" is the past participle of "to go" and means that someone or something has left a place.

• gesagt

  Said

• gesollt

  "Gesollt" is the past participle of the modal verb "sollen" and describes an obligation or expectation that was in the past.

• gemusst

  Had to

• zurückdenken

  to think back

• zurückversetzen

  To put back means to restore something or someone to a previous condition or position.

• vorgestellt

  Introduced

• verfolgt

  Pursued, haunted

• gesaugt

  Sucked

• erbaut

  Built

• zurückliegend

  Past, bygone

• rückwärtsgewandt

  Backward-looking

• Zeit

  time

Example sentences with “Vergangenheit”

1. Wir sollten die Vergangenheit ruhen lassen. (We should let the past rest.)

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