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(ə-gō') pronunciation
adv. & adj.
  1. Gone by; past: two years ago.
  2. In the past: It happened ages ago.

[Middle English, past participle of agon, to go away, from Old English āgān : ā-, intensive pref. + gān, to go.]



Ago is followed by that, not since, in constructions of the type It is 10 years ago that [not since] he died. Since is used without ago: e.g. It is 10 years since he died.

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pronunciation Dinosaurs lived a long time ago.

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Dansk (Danish)
adv. - for ... siden
adj. - for ... siden

Nederlands (Dutch)
geleden

Français (French)
adv. - avant, il y a (une semaine, un mois), depuis (une semaine)
adj. - précédant, tard

Deutsch (German)
adv. - vor
adj. - vor

Ελληνική (Greek)
adv. - πριν (από..), εδώ και..
adj. - περασμένος

Italiano (Italian)
fa, or sono, scorso

Português (Portuguese)
adv. - anteriormente, há tempo, atrás
adj. - passado

Русский (Russian)
тому назад, давний

Español (Spanish)
adv. - hace, ha, pasado , atrás
adj. - hace, ha

Svenska (Swedish)
adv. - för...sedan
adj. - för...sedan

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
以前, 以往, 以前的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adv. - 以前, 以往
adj. - 以前的

한국어 (Korean)
adv. - ~전에
adj. - 지금부터 ~전

日本語 (Japanese)
adv. - …前に, 以前に, 前に

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ظرف) في الماضي, منذ (صفه) ماض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adv. - ‮לפני כן, בעבר‬
adj. - ‮שחלף, לפני‬


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