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passé

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

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Etymology edit

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

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Adjective edit

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 edit

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

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Noun edit

passé (plural passés)

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

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pa.se/, /pɑ.se/
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Noun edit

passé m (plural passés)

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

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Adjective edit

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 passé ― last week; last year; last winter

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Participle edit

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

  1. past participle of passer

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German edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French passé.

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Adjective edit

passé (indeclinable, predicative only)

  1. past, over
    Synonyms: vorbei, vergangen

Declension edit

Only used predicatively. Indeclinable, predicative-only.

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Verb edit

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

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

Louisiana Creole edit

Etymology edit

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

Verb edit

passé

  1. to pass

References edit

  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Piedmontese edit

Etymology edit

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

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passé

  1. to pass

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from French passé.

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Adjective edit

passé (not comparable, no derived adverb)

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 outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable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

Declension edit

Indeclinable.

Further reading edit

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

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Adjective edit

passé (comparative mer passé, superlative mest passé)

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

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