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# passé — French to English

How French *passé* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 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: passé (71 816), passée (14 771), passées (10 293), passés (11 498). By style: everyday 1 858 · literary 80 · biblical 107 · parliamentary 12 494 · legal and administrative 5 816 · UN documents 88 023.

## past

Used about 30 905 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 122 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 3 254 · legal and administrative ≈ 909 · UN documents ≈ 26 590). Meaning: [past in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/past/).

- Votre **passé** m'indiffère.
  I don't care about your **past**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953418](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953418) [\#1347145](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 1322635)

## increased

Used about 11 371 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 130 · legal and administrative ≈ 697 · UN documents ≈ 10 544). Meaning: [increased in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/increased/).

- Monsieur le Président, le rapport Peijs constate que les dépenses publiques sont **passées** en vingt ans de 35 à 50 % du PIB.
  Mr President, the Peijs report states that, over 20 years, government expenditure has **increased** from 35% to 50% of the GNP.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 241885)

- La part de marché de ces importations est ainsi **passée** de 17 à 22 %.
  Thereby the market share of these imports **increased** from 17 % to 22 %.
  ([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 2214331)

- La couverture antirétrovirale est **passée** de 46 % en 2008 à 53 % en 2009.
  ART coverage **increased** from 46 per cent in 2008 to 53 per cent 2009.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24228629)

- Notre présence militaire est **passée** de 20 000 soldats en 2001 à 150 000 aujourd'hui, et pourtant, l'insécurité n'a fait que progresser.
  The number of our troops there has grown from 20 000 in 2001 to 150 000 now and, yet, insecurity has only **increased**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1462991)

- La part de marché de ces importations est ainsi **passée** de 10,5 % à 17,9 %.
  Thereby the market share of these imports has **increased** from 10,5 % to 17,9 %.
  ([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 2358592)

## year

Used about 4 088 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 10 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 195 · legal and administrative ≈ 212 · UN documents ≈ 3 668). Meaning: [year in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/year/).

- Un an **passé** et elle était enceinte.
  After a **year** she was pregnant.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and LdjuherTaqvaylit · checked, community translation · [\#12258085](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12258085) [\#12258089](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12258089))

- Sans bouger de son fauteuil, dame Aloïse prit la parole: «N'est-ce pas une de ces bohémiennes qui sont arrivées l'an **passé** par la porte Gibard?
  Without moving from her arm-chair, Dame Aloïse interposed, “Is she not one of those gypsy girls who arrived last **year** by the Gibard gate?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3675)

- MEDIA II a été amputé d'une partie de sa dotation qui est **passée** de 400 à 310 millions d'écus.
  MEDIA II is being cut from ECU 400 million a **year** to ECU 310 m.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1649336)

- C 17.00 OPR DETAILS — RISQUE OPÉRATIONNEL: PERTES BRUTES PAR LIGNES D'ACTIVITÉ ET TYPES D'ÉVÈNEMENTS SUR L'EXERCICE **PASSÉ**
  C 17.00 — OPERATIONAL RISK: GROSS LOSSES BY BUSINESS LINES AND EVENT TYPES IN THE LAST **YEAR** (OPR DETAILS)
  ([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 3342106)

- Jusqu &apos; alors, elles étaient **passées** en charges en tant que dépenses de l &apos; exercice en cours.
  Previously, these provisions were charged to current **year** expenditure.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14855446)

## last

Used about 2 076 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 254 · parliamentary ≈ 1 822). Meaning: [last in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/last/).

- Ils sont venus la semaine **passée**.
  They came **last** week.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3259680](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259680) [\#3259679](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3259679))

- (DE) Monsieur le Président, ECEH est le terme de la semaine **passée**.
  (DE) Mr President, EHEC is the term of the **last** week.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1566609)

- Tom était malade la semaine **passée**.
  Tom was sick **last** week.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Cocorico and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3185584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3185584) [\#3498177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3498177))

- Je pense que cette décision est entrée en vigueur la semaine **passée**.
  I believe that this decision came into force **last** week.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 96064)

- T'es-tu amusée la nuit **passée** ?
  Did you have fun **last** night?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1841733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1841733) [\#1842666](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1842666))

## happened

Used about 1 720 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 213 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 041 · UN documents ≈ 458).

- Que s'est-il **passé** le lundi ?
  What **happened** on Monday?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by slahatuvelli and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5851979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5851979) [\#12609014](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12609014))

- Il ne s'était rien **passé**.
  Nothing had **happened**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19156)

- et ils s’entretenaient de tout ce qui s’était **passé**.
  They talked with each other about all of these things which had **happened**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 24:14)

- Où sont **passés** les principes du droit international?
  What has **happened** to the principles of international law?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1541083)

- 17. Il ne s’agit pas seulement du droit individuel qu’a toute victime, ou ses proches, de savoir ce qui s’est **passé** en tant que droit à la vérité.
  17. This is not simply the right of any individual victim or closely related persons to know what **happened**, a right to the truth.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4050933)

## passed

Used about 1 643 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 264 · literary ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 260 · legal and administrative ≈ 151 · UN documents ≈ 917). Meaning: [passed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/passed/).

- Quatre jours étaient **passés**.
  Four days had **passed**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11221060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11221060) [\#12482018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12482018))

- Et le jour où vous avez **passé** devant moi?
  And the day when you **passed** before me?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20348)

- Les plus fiers animaux ne l’ont point foulé, Le lion n’y a jamais **passé**.
  The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion **passed** by there.
  ([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)

- La date limite de présentation d’observations par les autorités irlandaises n’est pas encore **passée**.
  The deadline for the submission of observations by the Irish authorities has not yet **passed**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 836556)

- La bouillie de champignons est **passée** sous une lampe à ultraviolets.
  The mushroom slurry is **passed** under a UV lamp.
  ([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 5240571)

## More sentences

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

- Il a **passé** toute la réunion à jacasser sur lui-même.
  He spent the entire meeting jabbering about himself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Luornu · checked, community translation · [\#10564223](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10564223) [\#10564225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10564225))

- J'ai de doux souvenirs de tout le temps que nous avons **passé** ensemble.
  I have fond memories of all the time we spent together.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#506101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/506101) [\#547908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547908))

- Où étais-tu **passé** ? J'étais inquiet.
  Where've you been? I was worried.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7920478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7920478) [\#12298224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12298224))

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