passé

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

English

Alternative forms

• passe

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

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

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

Synonyms

• (dated, old-fashioned): disused, outdated, outworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable
• (past one's prime): raddled, wasted, worn-out; see also Thesaurus:deteriorated

Translations

dated; out of style; old-fashioned

• Bulgarian: отживял (bg) (otživjal), старомоден (bg) (staromoden)
• German: veraltet; altmodisch
• Polish: passé (pl)
• Russian: старомо́дный (ru) m (staromódnyj)
• Swedish: passé (sv)

Noun

passé (plural passés)

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

Anagrams

• apess, apses, spaes

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.se/, /pɑ.se/

• Audio (FR)

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Noun

passé m (plural passés)

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

Derived terms

• chose du passé
• dans le passé
• par le passé
• 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

Derived terms

• participe passé
• passé de mode

Participle

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 (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from French passé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˌpaˈseː]

• Audio

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Adjective

passé (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. past, over

   Synonyms: vorbei, vergangen

Declension

Only used predicatively. Indeclinable, predicative-only.

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Verb

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

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

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Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

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

Verb

passé

1. to pass

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

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Piedmontese

Verb

passé

1. to pass

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French passé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pasˈsɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -assɛ
• Syllabification: pas‧sé

Adjective

passé (not comparable)

1. outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable

   Synonyms: miniony, niemodny, nienowoczesny, przebrzmiały, stary

Declension

Indeclinable.

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Adjective

passé (comparative mer passé, superlative mest passé)

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

References

• passé in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• passé in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• passé in Svensk ordbok (SO)