passé
French → English
(time) Past: relating to a time that has already gone by; former
Il aime se souvenir de sa vie passée à la campagne.
(English) He likes to remember his past life in the countryside.
Le temps passé ne revient jamais, il faut vivre le présent.
(English) Past time never returns; one must live in the present.
(visual) Faded: having lost color, brightness, or freshness over time; washed out
Le rideau est devenu tout passé à cause du soleil.
(English) The curtain has become completely faded because of the sun.
Elle porte une robe au tissu très passé et usé.
(English) She is wearing a dress with very faded and worn fabric.
(grammar) Past tense: a verbal category expressing an action that already happened; passé
Le passé composé est un temps essentiel de la langue française.
(English) The compound past is an essential tense of the French language.
Nous étudions la conjugaison des verbes au passé défini ce matin.
(English) We are studying the conjugation of verbs in the definite past this morning.
Entry ID: fr:en:passé · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary