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passé

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See also: passe, Passe, pâssé, Pässe, and påsse

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)

  1. (colloquial) Dated; out of style; old-fashioned.
    • 1997, Courtney Taylor-Taylor (lyrics and music), “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth”, performed by The Dandy Warhols:
      I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé.
    • 2007, “Turn On Billie”, performed by The Pierces:
      We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé.
    • 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times[1]:
      It is perhaps inevitable that a movement that was the height of fashion in the last decade would start to seem passé in this one. That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.
    • 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.
  2. Past one's prime; worn; faded.
    • 1939 November, “Pertinent Paragraphs: The Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
      The coaching stock is in general in a very passé condition, but the ex-royal saloon, though needing a coat of paint outside, as another photograph shows, is spotless inside.

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

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Translations

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Noun

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passé (plural passés)

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

Anagrams

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pa.se/ ~ /pɑ.se/
  • Audio (France):(file)
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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passé m (plural passés)

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

Derived terms

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Adjective

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

  1. past
  2. (used with certain temporal nouns) last
    Synonym: dernier
    la semaine passée ; l’année passée, l’an passé ; l’hiver passélast week; last year; last winter

Derived terms

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Participle

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

  1. past participle of passer

Further reading

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Anagrams

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French passé.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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passé (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. past, over
    Synonyms: vorbei, vergangen

Declension

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Only used predicatively. Indeclinable, predicative-only.

Ladin

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Verb

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

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

Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

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From French passer (to pass), compare Haitian Creole pase.

Verb

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passé

  1. to pass

References

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  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Piedmontese

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (step, noun).

Verb

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passé

  1. to pass

Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French passé.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /pasˈsɛ/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes:
  • Syllabification: pas‧sé

Adjective

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passé (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

  1. outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable
    Synonyms: miniony, niemodny, nienowoczesny, przebrzmiały, stary

Further reading

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  • passé in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • passé in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

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Adjective

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passé (comparative mer passé, superlative mest passé)

  1. passé (dated, out of style, past one's prime)

References

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