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# 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](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)

## 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/time/).

- **Passons** un bon moment !
  Let's have a good **time**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and JFMorais · checked, community translation · [\#4266388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4266388) [\#6886738](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/through/).

- J'ai **passé** des moments difficiles.
  I have been **through** some difficult times.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aghanim and Aghanim · checked, community translation · [\#12305239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12305239) [\#12305242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/pass/).

- **Passez**-moi le vin.
  **Pass** me the wine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3392941](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3392941) [\#6452607](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6452607))

- Trois heures se **passent**.
  Three hours **pass** away.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Whidou and DostKaplan · checked, community translation · [\#4546478](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4546478) [\#4546819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4546819))

- J'aime me faire **passer** pour un acteur.
  I like pretending to be an actor.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#9085400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9085400) [\#9084878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kurisutofu and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#361147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/361147) [\#388617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/388617))

## Grammar

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

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