passé

/pa.se/

le noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral
Word fingerprint: Register: neutral. Era: current. Frequency: common. Domain: general. Connotation: neutral.

Meaning

  1. the past

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual
Meaning fingerprint: Category: thing. Concreteness: concrete. Animacy: inanimate. Countability: countable. Scope: individual.

Similar words

vie antérieure

Le passé is the past in general, any earlier time; une vie antérieure specifically means a past life, often in a spiritual or reincarnation sense.

Similar in other languages

German

Vergangenheit

Vergangenheit is the German word for the same thing — both mean "the past."

Practice

1 What does passé mean?

2 Fill the gap: Il préfère ne pas parler de son ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches passé?

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