# passé
## English
### Alternative forms

* passe

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈpæ.seɪ/
* (General American) IPA: /pæˈseɪ/
* Rhymes: -eɪ

### Adjective

passé (comparative more passé, superlative most passé)
* (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.
** 2022 June 17, Michelle Goldberg, “The Future Isn’t Female Anymore”, in The New York Times‎:It is perhaps inevitable that a movement that was the height of fashion in the last decade would start to seem passé in this one. That’s how style works; the young and innovative distinguish themselves by breaking with the conventions of their predecessors.
** 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Then, like side fringes, Smirnoff Ice and tights under denim shorts, smoking was suddenly passé – distasteful, even gross.
* 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* (dated, old-fashioned): disused, outdated, outworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete or Thesaurus:unfashionable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
### Noun

passé (plural passés)
* (fencing) An attack that passes the target without hitting.

### Anagrams

* spaes, pases, PESAs, apses, apess

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.se/ ~ /pɑ.se/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

passé m (plural passés)
* past tense
* 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)
* past
* (used with certain temporal nouns) last
    Synonym: dernier
    la semaine passée ; l’année passée, l’an passé ; l’hiver passé ― last week; last year; last winter

#### Derived terms

* participe passé
* passé de mode

### Participle

passé (feminine passée, masculine plural passés, feminine plural passées)
* past participle of passer

### Further reading

* “passé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* pesas

## German
### Alternative forms

* passee (superseded)

### Etymology

Borrowed from French passé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˌpaˈseː]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

passé (indeclinable, predicative only)
* past, over
    Synonyms: vorbei, vergangen

#### Declension

Only used predicatively. Indeclinable, predicative-only.

## Ladin
### Verb

passé m (pl passés, f passeda, fpl passedes)
* Alternative form of passer
* past participle of passer

## Louisiana Creole
### Etymology

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

### Verb

passé
* to pass

### References

* Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *passāre, derived from Latin passus (“step”, noun).

### Verb

passé
* to pass

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French passé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pasˈsɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: pas‧sé

### Adjective

passé (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)
* outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable
    Synonyms: miniony, niemodny, nienowoczesny, przebrzmiały, stary

### Further reading

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

## Spanish
### Verb

passé
* first-person singular preterite indicative of passar

## Swedish
### Adjective

passé (comparative mer passé, superlative mest passé)
* passé (dated, out of style, past one's prime)

#### References

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