passer-by

English

Alternative forms

• passerby

Noun

passer-by (plural passers-by)

1. A person who is passing by (that is, walking past).

   When he tripped and fell in the street, several kind passers-by helped him up.

Translations

a person who is passing by

Danish: forbipasserende (da) c. Dutch: voorbijganger (nl), passant (nl) Finnish: ohikulkija (fi) French: passant (fr) m., passante (fr) f. German: Passant m., Passantin f. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: járókelő (hu), arramenő (hu) Italian: passante (it) m., passanti (it) m.

Japanese: 通行人 (つうこうにん, tsūkōnin) Norwegian: forbipasserende m. Portuguese: transeunte (pt) m. and f. Russian: прохожий (proxóžij) m. Scottish Gaelic: neach-dol-seachad m. and f. Slovene: mimoidoči m., mimoidoča f. Spanish: transeúnte m. and f., viandante m. and f. Swedish: förbipasserande (sv), förbigående (sv) c.