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passer

See also: Passer and pâsser

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

pass +‎ -er

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

passer (plural passers)

  1. One who succeeds in passing a test, etc.
    • 2008, David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman, Health Measurement Scales
      The distributions of scores on the exam for passers and failers are plotted […]
  2. One who passes something along; a distributor.
    a passer of counterfeit banknotes
  3. (sports) Someone who passes, someone who makes a pass.
    1. (American football) A football player who makes a forward pass, who may be (but not limited to) the quarterback.
  4. (chess) A passed pawn.
  5. (archaic) One who passes; a passer-by.
    • 1878, Henry James, The Europeans
      There was a promise of it in the gorgeous purity of the western sky; there was an intimation in the mild, unimpertinent gaze of the passers of a certain natural facility in things.
    • 1904, National Magazine (volume 20, page 147)
      Passers stopped and began to stare. A policeman was approaching up the street. Dave dodged back into the cab and banged the door.
  6. (sociology) One who is able to "pass", or be accepted as a member of a race, sex or other group to which society would not otherwise regard them as belonging.
    • 2003, Brooke Kroeger, Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are:
      Explores the history, literature, and sociology of passing, and provides case studies of six individuals who are "passers," including a black man who passed as a white Jew and a lesbian naval officer who passed as straight.
    • 2014, Risa Bear, Homecomings, page 69:
      Passers and would-be passers make every effort to be convincing in their chosen gender role […]

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DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From German Passer.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pasər/, [ˈpʰasɐ]

NounEdit

passer c (singular definite passeren, plural indefinite passere)

  1. compass, pair of compasses
  2. dividers
  3. calipers
InflectionEdit
Declension of passer
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative passer passeren passere passerne
genitive passers passerens passeres passernes

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See passere (“to pass”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /paseːr/, [pʰaˈseɐ̯ˀ]

VerbEdit

passer or passér

  1. imperative of passere

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From passen (“to measure a size”) +‎ -er.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

passer m (plural passers, diminutive passertje n)

  1. compass (device used with a pencil to draw an arc or circle on paper)

DescendantsEdit

  • Negerhollands: passer
  • → Papiamentu: paser
  • → Saramaccan: pása

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passō, *passāre, from Latin passus (“step”). Compare Italian passare, Spanish pasar, Portuguese passar.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

passer

  1. to go past
  2. to cross (a border)
  3. (law) to pass
    passer une loi ― to pass a law
  4. to spend (time)
    J'ai passé les vacances en Espagne. ― I spent the holidays in Spain.
    J'ai passé une splendide soirée chez toi. ― I had a great evening at your place.
  5. to publish (a newspaper)
  6. (transitive) to take, to sit (an exam or test)
    J'ai réussi l'examen que j'avais passé en avril. ― I passed the exam that I took in April.
  7. (intransitive) to pass (an exam or test)
    Il est passé à l'examen. ― He passed the exam.
  8. (dated) (transitive) to pass (an exam or test)
    Il a passé l'examen. ― He passed the exam.
  9. (public transportation) to run
    Le train passe toutes les vingt minutes. ― The train runs every 20 minutes.
  10. to exceed (a limit)
  11. to percolate
  12. to hand down, to pass on
  13. to be allowed
  14. (intransitive) to pass, to go (between two entities)
    • 1908, Gaston Leroux, chapter 1, in Le Mystère de la chambre jaune [The Mystery of the Yellow Room]‎[1], 2009 edition:
      L’assassin n’avait donc pas passé par là et ne pouvait se sauver par là […]
      The murderer, therefore, could not have entered that way and could not possibly escape that way.
  15. (transitive) to show (a movie)
  16. to go up (a grade)
  17. to shift (change gear)
    1. to go down
    2. to go up
  18. to stop by, to pop in
    Il est passé nous voir. ― He stopped by to see us.
    Je vais y passer demain pour mes affaires.
    I'm going to stop by there tomorrow for my things.
  19. to pass away, to die
  20. (music) to spin (e.g. a disk)
  21. (television) to show (be on television)
  22. (sports) to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player)
  23. (athletics) to pass (the relay baton)
  24. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease)
  25. (transitive) to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else)
    • 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1; translated 1908 by anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), as The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus, →ISBN:
      [...] et, par-dessus les volets, les barreaux intacts, des barreaux à travers lesquels vous n’auriez pas passé le bras…
      [...] and, as well as those shutters, there were iron bars so close together that you could not even have got your arm through them.
  26. to wipe, rub
    Elle passe de la crème sur son ventre.
    She's rubbing cream on her belly.
  27. to skip a go
  28. to put (make something undergo something)
  29. (card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn)
  30. (reflexive) to take place, to happen, to come to pass
    Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ici ? ― What happened here?
  31. (reflexive, for time) to go by
  32. (reflexive, with de) to do without
    Je ne peux pas me passer du café le matin.
    I can't do without a cup of coffee in the morning.
  33. to don
    Il passa son pantalon. ― He put on his pants.

Usage notesEdit

  • This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of passer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple passer
compound avoir or être + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple passant
/pa.sɑ̃/
compound ayant or étant + past participle
past participle passé
/pa.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present passe
/pas/ 		passes
/pas/ 		passe
/pas/ 		passons
/pa.sɔ̃/ 		passez
/pa.se/ 		passent
/pas/
imperfect passais
/pa.sɛ/ 		passais
/pa.sɛ/ 		passait
/pa.sɛ/ 		passions
/pa.sjɔ̃/ 		passiez
/pa.sje/ 		passaient
/pa.sɛ/
past historic2 passai
/pa.se/ 		passas
/pa.sa/ 		passa
/pa.sa/ 		passâmes
/pa.sam/ 		passâtes
/pa.sat/ 		passèrent
/pa.sɛʁ/
future passerai
/pa.sʁe/ 		passeras
/pa.sʁa/ 		passera
/pa.sʁa/ 		passerons
/pa.sʁɔ̃/ 		passerez
/pa.sʁe/ 		passeront
/pa.sʁɔ̃/
conditional passerais
/pa.sʁɛ/ 		passerais
/pa.sʁɛ/ 		passerait
/pa.sʁɛ/ 		passerions
/pa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		passeriez
/pa.sə.ʁje/ 		passeraient
/pa.sʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir or être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir or être + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir or être + past participle
future perfect future of avoir or être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir or être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present passe
/pas/ 		passes
/pas/ 		passe
/pas/ 		passions
/pa.sjɔ̃/ 		passiez
/pa.sje/ 		passent
/pas/
imperfect2 passasse
/pa.sas/ 		passasses
/pa.sas/ 		passât
/pa.sa/ 		passassions
/pa.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		passassiez
/pa.sa.sje/ 		passassent
/pa.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — passe
/pas/ 		— passons
/pa.sɔ̃/ 		passez
/pa.se/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle — simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle simple imperative of avoir or être + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

LadinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *passō, *passāre, from Latin passus.

VerbEdit

passer

  1. to proceed

ConjugationEdit

  • Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of passer (first conjugation)
infinitive passer, passé
auxiliary verb avei gerund passan
past participle passé
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie tu el / ela nos vos ei / eles
present passe, passeie passes, passeies passa, passeia, passea passon passeis passa, passeia
imperfect passove passoves passova passovan passovais passova
future passaré passaras passarà passaron passareis passarà
subjunctive che ie che tu che el / ela che nos che vos che ei / eles
present passe, passeie passes, passeies passe, passeie passon passeis passe
imperfect passasse passasses passassa passassan passassais passassa
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— passa, passeia — passon passede —

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *passros with a declension change from second to third, from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro-s (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Related to penna.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

passer m (genitive passeris); third declension

  1. sparrow
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 3.3–4:
      Passer mortuus est meae puellae.
      Passer, deliciae meae puellae […]
      My girl's sparrow is dead.
      The sparrow, my girl's pet […]
  2. turbot
    • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Halieutica 118–126:
      At contrā herbōsā piscēs luxantur harēnā
      ut scarus, ēpastās sōlus quī rūminat ēscās,
      fēcundumque genus mēnae lamyrusque smarisque
      atque immunda chromis, meritō vīlissima salpa
      atque avium phȳcis nīdōs imitāta sub undīs
      et squāmās tenuī suffūsus sanguine mullus,
      fulgentēs soleae candōre et concolor illīs
      passer et Hadriacō mīrandus lītore rhombus,
      tum leporēs lātī, tum mollēs tergore rānae […]
      On the other hand, fish that revel in the grassy sand
      such as the scar, the only one that chews over eaten up food,
      the prolific kind of the maena, lamyrus and smaris
      and the unclean chronic, the deservedly worthless salpa
      and the phycis that imitates the nests of birds under the waves
      and the mullet whose scales are suffused with tenous blood,
      and the sole flashing with whiteness and the turbot
      of the same colour, and the amazing flatfish on the Adriatic Shore,
      then the broad sea-hares, then the soft-bodied sea-frog […]

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative passer passerēs
Genitive passeris passerum
Dative passerī passeribus
Accusative passerem passerēs
Ablative passere passeribus
Vocative passer passerēs

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “passer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “passer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • passer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449

Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French passer.

VerbEdit

passer

  1. to pass; to go by
    • 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 3, line 2:
      Cy aprés parle comment les deux freres passerent le desert
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

ConjugationEdit

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of passer
infinitive simple passer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2 simple passant
compound present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle passé
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative ie (i’) tu il, elle nous vous ilz, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present passe passes passe passons passez passent
imperfect passois, passoys passois, passoys passoit, passoyt passions, passyons passiez, passyez passoient, passoyent
past historic passa passas passa passasmes passastes passerent
future passerai, passeray passeras passera passerons passerez passeront
conditional passerois, passeroys passerois, passeroys passeroit, passeroyt passerions, passeryons passeriez, passeryez passeroient, passeroyent
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que ie (i’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present passe passes passe passons passez passent
imperfect passasse passasses passast passassions passassiez passassent
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — passe — passons passez —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • passer on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

passer

  1. imperative of passere
  2. present of passe

Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Vulgar Latin *passō, *passāre, from Latin passus (“a step, pace, footstep, track”).

VerbEdit

passer

  1. to pass; to pass by

ConjugationEdit

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of passer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive passer avoir passé
gerund en passant Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle passant
past participle passé
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present pas passes passe passons passez passent
imperfect passoie, passeie, passoe, passeve passoies, passeies, passoes, passeves passoit, passeit, passot, passeve passiiens, passiens passiiez, passiez passoient, passeient, passoent, passevent
preterite passai passas passa passames passastes passerent
future passerai passeras passera passerons passeroiz, passereiz, passerez passeront
conditional passeroie, passereie passeroies, passereies passeroit, passereit passeriiens, passeriens passeriiez, passeriez passeroient, passereient
compound
tenses 		present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present pas pas past passons passez passent
imperfect passasse passasses passast passissons, passissiens passissoiz, passissez, passissiez passassent
compound
tenses 		past Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— passe — passons passez —

DescendantsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • pass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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