Noun: pas
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Des pas qu'on gravait dans la neige sont partis avec le printemps. (Steps we etched in the snow are gone with the [arrival of] spring.) [2018, Zaz, “On s'en remet jamais”:]
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Pas de Calais (Strait of Dover)
Nouns inflected like pas
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old French pas, from Latin passus.
2. Its use as an auxiliary negative adverb comes from an accusative use (Latin nec… passum) in negative constructions – literally “not… a step”, i.e. “not at all” – originally used with certain verbs of motion. In older French other nouns could also be used in this way, such as ne… goutte (“not… a drop”) and ne… mie (“not… a crumb”), but in the modern language pas has become grammaticalized. See: Latin Nouns '
passus', Latin Nouns '
nec… passum'.
Verbs referencing "pas"
Catalan Nouns
pas, Spanish Nouns
paso.
Translations