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passer.

to go past

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/pa.se//pɑ.se/
  1. to go past

  2. to cross (a border)

  3. to pass

    passer une loi
  4. to spend (time)

    J'ai passé les vacances en Espagne.
    J'ai passé une splendide soirée chez toi.
  5. to publish (a newspaper)

  6. to take, to sit (an exam or test)

    transitive
    J'ai réussi l'examen que j'avais passé en avril.
  7. to pass (an exam or test)

    intransitive
    Il est passé à l'examen.
  8. (transitive) to pass (an exam or test)

    dated
    Il a passé l'examen.
  9. to run

    Le train passe toutes les vingt minutes.
  10. to exceed (a limit)

  11. to percolate

  12. to hand down, to pass on

  13. to be allowed

  14. to pass, to go (between two entities)

    intransitive
  15. to show (a movie)

    transitive
  16. to go up (a grade)

  17. to shift (change gear) to go down

  18. to shift (change gear) to go up

  19. to stop by, to pop in

    Il est passé nous voir.
    Je vais y passer demain pour mes affaires.
  20. to pass away, to die

  21. to spin (e.g. a disk)

  22. to show (be on television)

  23. to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player)

  24. to pass (the relay baton)

  25. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease)

  26. to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else)

    transitive
  27. to wipe, rub

    Elle passe de la crème sur son ventre.
  28. to skip a go

  29. to put (make something undergo something)

  30. to pass (not play upon one's turn)

  31. to take place, to happen, to come to pass

    reflexive
    Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ici ?
  32. to go by

    reflexive
  33. to do without

    reflexive
    Je ne peux pas me passer de café le matin.
  34. to don

    Il passa son pantalon.
  35. to be thought to be, to be said to be, to be taken for

    intransitive
    faire passer quelqu'un pour quelque chose
    se faire passer pour
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

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