# passen
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English passen, from Old French passer; equivalent to pass +‎ -en.

### Verb

passen
* (obsolete) plural simple present of pass
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:In forreine landes, and all which passen by, Beholding it from far, do thinke it threates the skye.
** 1614, William Browne, Thyrsis' Praise of His Mistress:They in pleasing passen all.
** 1647, Henry More, Insomnium Philosophicum:And all his creatures, as they passen by In goodly pomp, they view with scornfull eye.

### Anagrams

* Snapes, speans, spanes, sneaps, snapes, aspens

## Catalan
### Verb

passen
* third-person plural present indicative of passar

## Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch passen, from pas (modern pas).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑsə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pas‧sen
* Rhymes: -ɑsən

#### Verb

passen
* (intransitive) to fit (have the right size)
* (transitive) to try on, to fit, to try for size
* (intransitive) to befit, to suit, to behoove, to be appropriate
* (card games) to pass

##### Derived terms

* aanpassen
* afpassen
* inpassen
* ongepast
* oppassen
* pasbeurt
* pashokje
* toepassen

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: pas
* Berbice Creole Dutch: pasi
* Negerhollands: pas
* → Caribbean Javanese: pas
* → Papiamentu: pas

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pass. Equivalent to pass +‎ -en.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaːsə(n)/
* Hyphenation: pas‧sen
* Rhymes: -aːsən
* Homophone: Pasen

#### Verb

passen
* (transitive, sports) to pass
* (transitive, slang) to give, to pass something over to someone, e.g. a jonko

##### Related terms

* pass

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑsə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pas‧sen
* Rhymes: -ɑsən

#### Noun

passen
* plural of pas

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpasən/, [ˈpʰasn̩]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French passer, intermediated and influenced by Dutch passen. Compare the noun Pass. From Middle French passer, from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

#### Verb

passen (weak, third-person singular present passt, past tense passte, past participle gepasst, auxiliary haben) (intransitive)
* to fit [with dative ‘someone/something’]
* to suit, to be suitable for [with dative ‘someone/something’]
* to go with (to correspond or fit well with, to match) [with zu (+ dative) ‘someone/something’]
* (card games) to pass

##### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

##### Derived terms

* abpassen
* anpassen
* aufpassen
* daraufpassen
* dazwischenpassen
* draufpassen
* drunterpassen
* durchpassen
* einpassen
* hereinpassen
* herpassen
* hineinpassen
* hinpassen
* Passform
* passgenau
* übereinanderpassen
* verpassen
* zusammenpassen

### Etymology 2

Pass +‎ -en, a 20th century borrowing from English pass. Same root as Etymology 1.

#### Verb

passen (weak, third-person singular present passt, past tense passte, past participle gepasst, auxiliary haben)
* (sports) to pass (to move the ball or puck to a teammate)

##### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

##### Derived terms

* hereinpassen
* herpassen
* herüberpassen
* hineinpassen
* hinpassen
* hinüberpassen
* rüberpassen
* wegpassen
* weiterpassen
* zupassen
* zurückpassen

### Further reading

* “passen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “passen” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “passen” in Duden online
* “passen” in OpenThesaurus.de

## Luxembourgish
### Etymology

From French passer

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɑsən/

### Verb

passen (third-person singular present passt, past participle gepasst, auxiliary verb hunn)
* (intransitive) to fit
* (intransitive) to match, to suit
* (transitive, sports) to pass

#### Conjugation

(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* pasen, pacen

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French passer, from Vulgar Latin *passāre, ultimately from Latin pandō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpasən/

### Verb

passen (third-person singular simple present passeth, present participle passende, passynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle passed) (Past participle can also be past.)
* to pass

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

#### Descendants

* English: pass, pace
* Scots: pass
* Yola: paaced (preterite)

#### References

* “passen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Swedish
### Noun

passen
* definite singular of pass c (“pass (of the ball, in sports)”)
* definite plural of pass n (“passport; mountain pass; pace; etc.”)

### Anagrams

* aspens, senaps