passer.
to go past
Meaning & usage
to go past
to cross (a border)
to pass
passer une loi
to spend (time)
J'ai passé les vacances en Espagne.
J'ai passé une splendide soirée chez toi.
to publish (a newspaper)
to take, to sit (an exam or test)
J'ai réussi l'examen que j'avais passé en avril.
to pass (an exam or test)
Il est passé à l'examen.
(transitive) to pass (an exam or test)
Il a passé l'examen.
to run
Le train passe toutes les vingt minutes.
to exceed (a limit)
to percolate
to hand down, to pass on
to be allowed
to pass, to go (between two entities)
to show (a movie)
to go up (a grade)
to shift (change gear) to go down
to shift (change gear) to go up
to stop by, to pop in
Il est passé nous voir.
Je vais y passer demain pour mes affaires.
to pass away, to die
to spin (e.g. a disk)
to show (be on television)
to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player)
to pass (the relay baton)
to pass on (infect someone else with a disease)
to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else)
to wipe, rub
Elle passe de la crème sur son ventre.
to skip a go
to put (make something undergo something)
to pass (not play upon one's turn)
to take place, to happen, to come to pass
Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ici ?
to go by
to do without
Je ne peux pas me passer de café le matin.
to don
Il passa son pantalon.
to be thought to be, to be said to be, to be taken for
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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