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Auxiliary Verb (Group 2)

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Someone/something does something excessively or is in a state excessively.

Too; do something too much/often; over-

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Key Sentences

(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.

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Formation

(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

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Examples

(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.

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Notes

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).

(1)
• このアパートはトムにはよすぎる。
• This apartment is too good for Tom.

3. The negative ない 'not exist/not' changes to なさ before 過ぎる.

(2)
• ベンは力がなさすぎる。
• Literally: Ben has too little power. (= Ben is too weak.)

(3)
• 友子は野菜を食べなさすぎる。
• Tomoko eats too few vegetables.

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.

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