passer
French, verb/pa.se/
passer is a French verb meaning “to go past” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller d’un lieu à un autre, traverser un espace”.
What does passer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go past
- 2
to cross (a border)
- 3
to pass
passer une loi
- 4
to spend (time)
J'ai passé les vacances en Espagne.
- 5
to publish (a newspaper)
- 6
to take, to sit (an exam or test)
J'ai réussi l'examen que j'avais passé en avril.
- 7
to pass (an exam or test)
Il est passé à l'examen.
- 8
dated(transitive) to pass (an exam or test)
Il a passé l'examen.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Aller d’un lieu à un autre, traverser un espace. 2. Changer de nature, de qualité, d’état. 3. Traverser en subissant. 4. Aller chez quelqu’un, visiter, rendre visite.
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 passer
- avoir infinitive multiword-construction
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- passant gerund participle present
- ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- passé participle past
- passe first-person indicative present
- passes indicative present second-person
- passons first-person indicative plural
- passez indicative plural present
- passent indicative plural present
- passais first-person imperfect indicative
- passait imperfect indicative singular
- passions first-person imperfect indicative
- passiez imperfect indicative plural
- passaient imperfect indicative plural
- passai first-person historic indicative
- passas historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce passer?
- /pa.se/
- /pɑ.se/
- \pa.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 passer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is passer in French?
passer appears 282 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).