How To Pronounce Past

In British English, past is pronounced /pɑːst/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pʰɑːst̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /pæst/.

Past has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.