dépasser
French, verb/de.pa.se/
dépasser is spelled D-É-P-A-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,224th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dépasser is a French verb meaning “to exceed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller au-delà de quelque chose”.
What does dépasser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to exceed
- 2
to overtake, to go past
- 3
to surpass
Near-synonym: surpasser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller au-delà de quelque chose. 2. Passer devant, en passant sur le côté et en allant plus vite. 3. Excéder en longueur, en hauteur, en valeur, etc. 4. Déborder.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of dépasser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- dépassant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- dépassé participle past
- dépasse first-person indicative present
- dépasses indicative present second-person
- dépassons first-person indicative plural
- dépassez indicative plural present
- dépassent indicative plural present
- dépassais first-person imperfect indicative
- dépassait imperfect indicative singular
- dépassions first-person imperfect indicative
- dépassiez imperfect indicative plural
- dépassaient imperfect indicative plural
- dépassai first-person historic indicative
- dépassas historic indicative past
- dépassa historic indicative past
- dépassâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dépasser?
- /de.pa.se/
- /de.pɑ.se/
- \de.pɑ.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dépasser
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dépasser in French?
dépasser appears 18 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).