YOU SAID:
eight seconds have passed
INTO JAPANESE
8 秒が経過します。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
8 seconds have elapsed.
INTO JAPANESE
8 秒が経過しました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
8 seconds have passed.
INTO JAPANESE
8 秒が経過しました。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
8 seconds have passed.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.