passé

See also: passe, Passe, pâssé, and Pässe

English

Alternative forms

• passe

Etymology

From French passé (“passed”, past participle of passer (“to pass”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæ.seɪ/
• IPA^(key): /pæˈseɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Adjective

passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)

1. (colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
   • 2007, The Pierces, Turn On Billie

     We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé.

   • 1997, The Dandy Warhols, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

     I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé.

2. Past one's prime; worn; faded.

Usage notes

As in French, passée is sometimes used for the feminine: "a passée belle".

Translations

dated; out of style; old-fashioned

• Russian: старомо́дный (ru) m (staromódnyj)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: passé (sv)

Noun

passé (plural passés)

1. (fencing) An attack that passes the target without hitting.

Anagrams

• apses, spaes

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.se/ ~ /pɑ.se/, /pa.se/

• Audio (FR):

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Noun

passé m (plural passés)

1. past tense
2. past (opposite of future)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• passé composé
• passé proche

• passé simple
• passé surcomposé

Adjective

passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)

1. past
2. (used with certain temporal nouns) last

   la semaine passée ; l’année passée, l’an passé ; l’hiver passé ― last week; last year; last winter

   Synonym: dernier

Verb

passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)

1. past participle of passer

Further reading

• “passé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• pesas

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German

Alternative forms

• passee

Etymology

Borrowed from French passé.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

passé (not comparable)

1. past, over

Synonyms

• vorbei, vergangen

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Ladin

Verb

passé m (pl passés, f passeda, fpl passedes)

1. Alternative form of passer
2. past participle of passer

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Piedmontese

Verb

passé

1. to pass