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► 接尾辞
過ぎ  [すぎ]    meaning:  excessive  rank: 1
☆ それはやり過ぎだ ⇨ That’s overdone. That’s over the top
☆ べ過ぎでがもたれる ⇨ My stomach feels too full because of overeating


More examples:
  • 私達中心通り過ぎた ⇨ We’ve gone, drove, through the city center
  • 申込みの締切はもう過ぎてしまった ⇨ The deadline for the application has already passed
  • をかみ過ぎてひりひりする ⇨ My nose is sore because I blew it too many times
  • みかんをべ過ぎると黄色くなる ⇨ Your palms become yellow when you eat too much orange
  • い過ぎておがよじれそうになった ⇨ I laughed so hard my stomach almost got twisted
  • 無理をし過ぎて病気になった ⇨ He worked to hard and became sick
  • 完璧にしようと頑張り過ぎてかえって失敗した ⇨ I tried too hard to make it perfect and ruined it instead
  • そのはどうも旨過ぎる ⇨ The story is too good to be true and fishy
  • あっと言う一年が過ぎた ⇨ A year has passed while you say “oh”, in the blink of an eye, very quickly
  • このにはき過ぎる ⇨ These shoes are too big for me
  • それは小数人間言っているだけに過ぎない ⇨ That’s just something a small group of people is claiming
  • それはあくまでも仮定に過ぎない ⇨ That is just a hypothesis
  • けをい過ぎて全部失ったらもない ⇨ It will be meaningless if we try to gain too much and lose everything
  • それは迷信に過ぎない ⇨ That’s nothing more than a superstition
  • 最近忙し過ぎて女房とろくにしもしていない ⇨ Recently I’ve been too busy and I’ve barely talked to my wife