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Silak12 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Evening past?

Hi! everyone.
I was watching a movie lately and came across the phase below ,could you tell me what that means?
Character A-What time did they arrive?
Character B-Around 5:00 P.M., Evening past.
What does "evening past" mean here?
Thanks!
  

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The evening just passed - yesterday evening - relative to the event/time being talked about - d

  • The evening just passed - yesterday evening - relative to the event/time being talked about - d
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The evening just passed - yesterday evening - relative to the event/time being talked about - d
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It sounds unnatural to me. I have never heard the expression 'evening past', and there are no citations in either the British National Corpus or the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
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I am sure that I quoted(from the subtitles) ,lip read and heard the same words.
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I've often heard it. I presume its really meant to be evening passed.
Would that necessarily need a special entry? at any rate, it's certainly used.
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As an answer to the question "What time did they arrive?", "Around 5 pm. Evening passed" does not sound very natural. Did the character say any words after 'Evening past/passed, silak?
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I suppose it could well be past - meaning "evening (that is in the) past"."
that'll teach me to type and speak on the phone with my daughter's audio book playing!!
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Babylon translates neithiwyr as "Neithiwyr = n. the evening past, last night"
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I'm afraid I don't trust anything from a translation program.
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It think it's just taken it from a Welsh-English dictionary - I can see it in one stamped by the Harvard College Library 1925
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Here is the remaining part of the sentence.
A-What time did they arrive?

B-Around 5:00 P.M.,Evening past. I locked them in, and I left.(He is talking about the house and the ones he locked in the house are the children who had returned from a school trip at 5:00 P.M.)
Thanks!

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