How to say “pass” in 40 different languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
- pasa/ˈpasa/ Spanish
- пройти[prɐjˈtʲi] Russian
- مضى/ma.dˤaː/ Arabic
- 지난[t͡ɕina̠n] Korean
- πέρασε/ˈperaˌse/ Greek
- עבר/ʕaːˈbar/ Hebrew
“pass” in Spanish: pasa · German: ball · Italian: passato · Portuguese: passa · Korean: 지난 · Russian: пройти · Arabic: مضى · Turkish: geçti
It is commonest in Catalan, where passa is the 134th most used word.
Pass in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans verbygaan/fərˈbəi̯ˌχɑːn/ to pass, to go by #1,358
- Albanian shkojmë/ʃkɔjmə/ to go, pass #102
- Arabic مضى/ma.dˤaː/ to pass, be past #508
- Armenian անցնել/ɑnt͡sʰˈnel/ to pass #484
- Basque pasatu/pas̺atu/ to pass, to cross, to traverse #343
- Bosnian proći/prôːt͡ɕi/ to pass, go #1,058
- Bulgarian мина[ˈminɐ] to pass by, to elapse #505
- Catalan passa[ˈpa.sə] to pass, to pass by, to go by #134
- Chinese 死去/sɹ̩²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/ to die; to pass away; to go to one's death #465
- Croatian proći/prôːt͡ɕi/ to pass, go #848
- Czech zemřít[ˈzɛmr̝iːt] to die, to pass away, to decease #1,088
- English through/θɹu/ So as to enter, pass within or across, and… #212
- Esperanto mortis/ˈmortis/ to die, pass away #252
- Finnish aiheuttaa/ˈɑi̯heutːɑːˣ/ to cause, bring about, bring to pass, engender #1,539
- Galician pasa/ˈpasa/ to pass, cross #187
- Georgian მაპატიეთ[mäpʼätʼie̞tʰ] Said as a request to pass somebody #554
- German ball/bal/ pass, play #1,400
- Greek πέρασε/ˈperaˌse/ to pass, go past #650
- Hebrew עבר/ʕaːˈbar/ to pass, to cross #504
- Hungarian múlt[ˈmuːlt] to pass, to go by, to elapse #641
- Indonesian meninggal/məˈniŋɡal/ to pass away #391
- Italian passato/pasˈsa.to/ to pass #402
- Korean 지난[t͡ɕina̠n] to pass #225
- Lithuanian praeiti/prɐˈɛɪtɪ/ to pass #1,535
- Macedonian помине[ˈpɔminɛ] to pass, elapse #676
- Malay meninggal/mə.niŋ.ɡal/ to die; to pass away #510
- Norwegian tilbringe/ˈtɪlˌbrɪŋə/ to spend, pass #2,396
- Polish podaj/ˈpɔ.daj/ to hand, to pass #1,492
- Portuguese passa/ˈpa.sɐ/ to pass; to pass by #222
- Romanian trecut/treˈkut/ to pass through #271
- Russian пройти[prɐjˈtʲi] to pass, to go, to walk #1,082
- Serbian proći/prôːt͡ɕi/ to pass, go #1,055
- Slovenian mini/ˈmiːni/ to pass #1,348
- Spanish pasa/ˈpasa/ to pass, to hand, to slip #158
- Tagalog dumaan/dumaˈʔan/ to pass by; to pass through #858
- Tamil நடக்க/nɐɖɐkːɐ/ to walk, go, pass, proceed #252
- Telugu అతిక్రమించారు/ˈatiˌkraminˌcaːru/ to transgress, trespass, pass over, pass #1,745
- Turkish geçti/ɟet͡ʃˈti/ to pass, pass through, pass over, cross #478
- Ukrainian пройти[prɔi̯ˈtɪ] to go, to pass, to walk #774
- Vietnamese truyền[t͡ɕwiən˨˩] to pass to #720
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Slovenian (artur (sl_SI), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.