passen

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

passen

1. (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.

• Snapes, speans, spanes, sneaps, snapes, aspens

passen

1. third-person plural present indicative of passar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑsə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: pas‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɑsən

passen

1. (intransitive) to fit (have the right size)
2. (transitive) to try on, to fit, to try for size
3. (intransitive) to befit, to suit, to behoove, to be appropriate
4. (card games) to pass

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

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

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

passen

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

• pass

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑsə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: pas‧sen
• Rhymes: -ɑsən

passen

1. plural of pas

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasən/, [ˈpʰasn̩]

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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).

passen (weak, third-person singular present passt, past tense passte, past participle gepasst, auxiliary haben) (intransitive)

1. to fit [with dative ‘someone/something’]
2. to suit, to be suitable for [with dative ‘someone/something’]
3. to go with (to correspond or fit well with, to match) [with zu (+ dative) ‘someone/something’]
4. (card games) to pass

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

passen (weak, third-person singular present passt, past tense passte, past participle gepasst, auxiliary haben)

1. (sports) to pass (to move the ball or puck to a teammate)

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

From French passer

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑsən/

passen (third-person singular present passt, past participle gepasst, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (intransitive) to fit
2. (intransitive) to match, to suit
3. (transitive, sports) to pass

• pasen, pacen

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpasən/

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.)

1. to pass

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

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

passen

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

• aspens, senaps