walk pass or walk past

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If you want to tell somebody that he can't ignore a beggar just like that, would you say:

" But you can not walk pass this man"

OR

" But you can not walk past this man"

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Walk past.
 

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:up: (The trouble is that people usually walk/run/go.... past 'the/them/this/that/these/those <somethings>' and the /t/ is assimilated to the following dental fricative. Assimilated that is; not dropped. But someone who is new to the language is unlikely to hear it.)

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