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Auxiliary Verb (Group 2)
Someone/something does something excessively or is in a state excessively. | Too; do something too much/often; over- |
(ksa). ウィルソンは肉を食べ過ぎる・過ぎます。
Mr. Wilson eats too much meat.
(ksb). このアパートは私達には高過ぎる・過ぎます。
This apartment is too expensive for us.
(i)Vます | 過ぎる | |
話し過ぎる | Talk too much | |
食べ過ぎる | Eat too much | |
(ii)Adjective {い/な} stem | 過ぎる | |
高過ぎる | Too expensive | |
静か過ぎる | Too quiet |
(a). 私は今朝寝過ぎて学校に遅れた。
I overslept this morning and was late for school.
(b). この机は私の部屋には大き過ぎる。
This desk is too big for my room.
(c). 田中先生の授業は大変過ぎるので辞めました。
I dropped Professor Tanaka's class because it was too demanding.
(d). 森さんは太り過ぎている。
Mr. Mori is too fat.
1. 過ぎる, which as a main verb means 'pass; go beyond some limit', is used as an auxiliary verb with Verbます or Adjective い/な stem and means 'do something excessively' or 'be ~ excessively'
2. The stem of いい 'good' changes to よ before 過ぎる, as in (1).
3. The negative ない 'not exist/not' changes to なさ before 過ぎる.
4. For in "be too ~ for someone/something" is expressed by には, as in Key Sentence (B) and Example (b).
5. 過ぎる is a Group 2 verb; the negative form is 過ぎない, the polite form is 過ぎます and the て form is 過ぎて.