passer — French to English

How French passer is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: passaient (646), passait (2 279), passe (28 154), passent (6 330), passer (44 454), passes (285), passez (297), passons (2 391), passé (71 816), passée (14 771), passées (10 293), passés (11 498). By style: everyday 4 219 · literary 234 · biblical 339 · parliamentary 27 384 · legal and administrative 10 632 · UN documents 150 406.

past

Used about 19 818 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 96 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 2 973 · legal and administrative ≈ 790 · UN documents ≈ 15 928). Meaning: past in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Votre passé m'indiffère.

  I don't care about your past.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #953418 #1347145

• Ce revenant, le passé, est sujet à falsifier son passeport.

  This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10869

• Car voici, l’hiver est passé; La pluie a cessé, elle s’en est allée.

  For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 2:11

• Le passé n'est pas mort.

  The past is not dead.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1366827

• des enseignements tirés d’activités passées et présentes de la CE,

  lessons learnt from past and ongoing EC activities,

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1322635

time

Used about 9 125 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 807 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 1 408 · legal and administrative ≈ 368 · UN documents ≈ 6 528). Meaning: time in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Passons un bon moment !

  Let's have a good time.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and JFMorais · checked, community translation · #4266388 #6886738

• Chaque fois que cette jeune vipère passe devant ma cellule, elle me bouleverse le sang!

  Every time that that young viper passes in front of my cell, she sets my blood in a ferment.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5508

• Or, tous les Athéniens et les étrangers demeurant à Athènes ne passaient leur temps qu’à dire ou à écouter des nouvelles.

  Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 17:21

• Le temps passe pour la présidence suédoise.

  Time has run out for the Swedish Presidency.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 170935

• Temps que les animaux passent en pâturant sur des terres communales

  Amount of time when animals are grazing on common land

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1621408

through

Used about 8 342 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 64 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 991 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 000 · UN documents ≈ 6 267). Meaning: through in the Elamur Dictionary.

• J'ai passé des moments difficiles.

  I have been through some difficult times.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Aghanim · checked, community translation · #12305239 #12305242

• Elle ne pouvait point sortir; il fallait passer par le salon.

  She could not get out, she must come through his room.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1788

• Mon bien-aimé a passé la main par la fenêtre, Et mes entrailles se sont émues pour lui.

  My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · SOL 5:4

• La pêche est parfois passée dans le creux de la vague.

  Fisheries swam through many a trough.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 282346

• via une passe de pont;

  through a bridge opening,

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4752868

pass

Used about 5 121 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 408 · literary ≈ 97 · biblical ≈ 95 · parliamentary ≈ 730 · legal and administrative ≈ 658 · UN documents ≈ 3 133). Forms: pass, passed. Meaning: pass in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Passez-moi le vin.

  Pass me the wine.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3392941 #6452607

• Trois heures se passent.

  Three hours pass away.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3006

• Passez à Tarsis, Lamentez-vous, habitants de la côte!

  Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 23:6

• Donc, il est évident que si nous faisons passer cette motion, nous aurons gagné une partie.

  Consequently if this motion is passed, we will have notched up a victory. That much is plain.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 437612

• la bille ne passe pas au travers de l’éprouvette,

  The ball does not pass through the test piece,

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5517271

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• Le téléphone portable est une invention dont l'on ne peut pas se passer.

  The cellphone is an invention we can't live without.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Whidou and DostKaplan · checked, community translation · #4546478 #4546819

• J'aime me faire passer pour un acteur.

  I like pretending to be an actor.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · #9085400 #9084878

• Prévoir est la façon de dire ce qui va se passer et ensuite d'expliquer pourquoi ça ne s'est pas passé.

  Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kurisutofu and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · #361147 #388617

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