# impasse
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French impasse.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæmpɑːs/, /æmˈpɑːs/, /ˈɪmpɑːs/, /ɪmˈpɑːs/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɪmpæs/, /ɪmˈpæs/
* Hyphenation: im‧passe

### Noun

impasse (plural impasses)
* A road with no exit; a cul-de-sac. [from 1851]
* (figurative) A deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made.
** 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIV:“It seems to me the thing's an impasse. French expression,” I explained, “meaning that we're stymied good and proper with no hope of finding a formula.”
** 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest:"Young man, this town is at a bit of an impasse. If you have any suggestion that might help, now would be the time to voice it."
** 2022 June 12, Emily Cochrane, Annie Karni, “Senators Reach Bipartisan Deal on Gun Safety”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:The agreement, which falls short of the sprawling changes championed by Democrats, is a significant step toward ending a yearslong impasse over gun reform legislation.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
* 1 2 3 4 Concise Oxford Enɡlish Dictionary
* 1 2 “impasse”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

### Further reading

* “impasse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* pessima, sempais

## Dutch
### Etymology

From French impasse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɪmˈpɑsə/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: im‧pas‧se
* Rhymes: -ɑsə

### Noun

impasse f (plural impasses or impassen)
* impasse (situation in which no progress can be made)
    De onderhandelingen verkeerden al maanden in een impasse.Negotiations had been at an impasse for months.

## French
### Etymology

From im- +‎ passe.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.pas/ ~ /ɛ̃.pɑs/
* Audio (France):(file)

### Noun

impasse f (plural impasses)
* stalemate, impasse (situation in which no progress can be made; not used in the chess sense of stalemate)
* dead-end; cul-de-sac (street)

#### Derived terms

* faire l’impasse

#### Descendants

* → English: impasse
* → German: Impasse
* → Italian: impasse
* → Dutch: impasse
* → Portuguese: impasse
* → Spanish: impasse

### Further reading

* “impasse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* “impasse” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
* “impasse” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

## Galician
### Verb

impasse
* (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of impar

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French impasse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /emˈpas/
* Rhymes: -as

### Noun

impasse f (invariable)
* impasse, dead-end, deadlock, stalemate
    Synonym: stallo

### References

* ↑ impasse in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* impasse in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Messapi, assempi, pessima

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French impasse.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈpa.si/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈpa.si/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ĩˈpa.se/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ĩˈpa.sɨ/
* Hyphenation: im‧pas‧se

### Noun

impasse m (plural impasses)
* impasse (a situation in which no progress can be made)

### Further reading

* “impasse”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* impás

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French impasse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /imˈpas/ [ĩmˈpas]
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: im‧pas‧se

### Noun

impasse m (plural impasses)
* impasse

#### Usage notes

* According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “impasse”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014