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Old Oct 24, 2019, 12:23 AM
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Literally, yes. But there are arguments about whether Japanese past tense is really a past tense or if it just expresses the current state of something. You regularly hear 来た to describe something that hasn't actually arrived yet but has come into view such as a bus or train.
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