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# passed — English to French

How English *passed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [passed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passed/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: passed (27 207). By style: everyday 332 · literary 146 · biblical 129 · parliamentary 2 838 · legal and administrative 1 954 · UN documents 21 808.

## passé

Used about 1 281 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 76 · literary ≈ 24 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 177 · legal and administrative ≈ 81 · UN documents ≈ 909).

- Time **passed** very quickly.
  Le temps a **passé** très vite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by pauldhunt and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#894936](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/894936) [\#1321258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1321258))

- They set off by the alleys through which the hearse had **passed**.
  Ils s'en allèrent par les allées où le corbillard avait **passé**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12358)

- The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion **passed** by there.
  Les plus fiers animaux ne l’ont point foulé, Le lion n’y a jamais **passé**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 28:8)

- Lucky that you remembered to do this before the day had actually **passed**.
  Heureusement que vous vous en êtes souvenue avant que le jour soit **passé**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1506856)

- Regardless of the path chosen, the economic risk of the assets and liabilities **passed** from WestLB to the EAA in full.
  Indépendamment de la forme de transfert, le risque économique lié aux actifs et aux passifs est **passé** intégralement de WestLB à l'EAA.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2792739)

## More sentences

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

- Dick **passed** the photo to me.
  Dick me passa la photo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#39696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/39696) [\#12667](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12667))

- The Senate **passed** the bill yesterday.
  Le Sénat a adopté le projet de loi hier.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sharptoothed and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2820875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2820875) [\#11266702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11266702))

- There was some monkey business going on when they were negotiating that last contract; money **passed** under the table.
  Il y a eu des magouilles lors des négociations autour du dernier contrat ; de l'argent a été versé sous le manteau.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#305002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305002) [\#14045135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14045135))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

## About these examples

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