過ぎる・すぎる

Auxiliary Verb (Group 2) (Basic ㊦ 423)

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

Equivalent: Too; do something too much/often; over-

ウィルソンは肉を食べ過ぎる・過ぎます。: Mr. Wilson eats too much meat.
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.
私は今朝寝過ぎて学校に遅れた。: I overslept this morning and was late for school.
この机は私の部屋には大き過ぎる。: This desk is too big for my room.
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.
森さんは太り過ぎている。: Mr. Mori is too fat.

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

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).

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.

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

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.