passer

Meaning

1. to go past
2. to cross (a border)
3. to pass
4. to spend (time)
5. to publish (a newspaper)
6. to take, to sit (an exam or test)
7. to pass (an exam or test)
8. (transitive) to pass (an exam or test)
9. to run
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)
15. to show (a movie)
16. to go up (a grade)
17. to shift (change gear)
18. to shift (change gear)
19. to stop by, to pop in
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)
27. to wipe, rub
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
32. to go by
33. to do without
34. to don
35. to be thought to be, to be said to be, to be taken for

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pa.se/

Etymology

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

Sentences

Le confinement , on aurait aimé pouvoir s’en passer .

Lockdown, we would have liked to have been able to do without it.

Bruine s’écarte pour laisser passer la nouvelle venue .

Drizzle pulls away to let the newcomer in.

Après les acteurs économiques , ce sont les contribuables qui l’ont senti passer .

After the economic actors, it was the taxpayers who felt it pass.