passer |
1. v. to go past | |
2. v. to cross (a border) | |
3. v. (legal) to pass | |
passer une loi - to pass a law | |
4. v. 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. v. to publish (a newspaper) | |
6. v. 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. v. to pass (an exam or test) | |
Il est passé à l'examen. - He passed the exam. | |
8. v. (dated) to pass (an exam or test) | |
Il a passé l'examen. - He passed the exam. | |
9. v. (public transportation) to run | |
Le train passe toutes les vingt minutes. - The train runs every 20 minutes. | |
10. v. to exceed (a limit) | |
11. v. to percolate | |
12. v. to hand down, to pass on | |
13. v. to be allowed | |
14. v. to pass, to go (between two entities) | |
15. v. to show (a movie) | |
16. v. to go up (a grade) | |
17. v. to shift (change gear) | |
18. v. to go down | |
19. v. to go up | |
20. v. 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. | |
21. v. to pass away, to die | |
22. v. (music) to spin (e.g. a disk) | |
23. v. (TV) to show (be on television) | |
24. v. (sports) to pass (kick, throw, hit etc. the ball to another player) | |
25. v. (athletics) to pass (the relay baton) | |
26. v. to pass on (infect someone else with a disease) | |
27. v. to put, to place, to slip (move a part of one's body somewhere else) | |
28. v. to wipe, rub | |
Elle passe de la crème sur son ventre. - She's rubbing cream on her belly. | |
29. v. to skip a go | |
30. v. to put (make something undergo something) | |
31. v. (card games) to pass (not play upon one's turn) | |
32. v. to take place, to happen, to come to pass | |
Qu'est-ce qui s'est passé ici ? - What happened here? | |
33. v. to go by | |
34. v. 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. | |
35. v. to don | |
Il passa son pantalon. - He put on his pants. | |
36. v. (indtr, pour) to be thought to be, to be said to be, to be taken for | |
faire passer quelqu'un pour quelque chose - to make someone out to be something | |
se faire passer pour - to pass oneself off as, to pose as, to impersonate | |
la |
1. art. the (definite article) | |
2. pron. her, it (direct object) | |
Où est Judith ? Je ne la vois pas. - Where is Judith? I don't see her. | |
Prends cette boîte et mets-la dans le coin. - Take that box and put it in the corner. | |
3. n-m. (music) la, the note 'A' | |
langue |
1. n-f. (anatomy) tongue | |
la langue dans la bouche - the tongue in the mouth | |
2. n-f. (linguistics) language (system of communication using written or spoken words) | |
la langue maternelle - the mother tongue, native language | |
une langue étrangère - a foreign language | |
Elle parle trois langues. - She speaks three languages. | |
faire parler la langue française - to make speak the French language — Bertrand Barère | |
sur |
1. prep. on, upon | |
2. prep. on top of | |
3. prep. from on top of | |
4. prep. above | |
5. prep. out of | |
sept sur dix - seven out of ten | |
6. prep. in the case of | |
7. prep. about, concerning | |
8. prep. (informal, France) in (a place) | |
sur Paris - in Paris | |
9. adj. sour | |
quelque |
1. det. some (singular) | |
chose |
1. n-f. thing | |
quelque chose |
1. pron. something (an indefinite or indeterminate object) | |