Pas

Noun

Définitions

1.Nounstep, pace, footstep

2.Nounstrait, pass

"Pas de Calais"

3.Nounthread, pitch (of a screw or nut)

4.AdverbThe most common adverb of negation in French, typically translating into English as not, don't, doesn't, etc.

"Je ne sais pas.; Ma grande sœur n'habite pas avec nous.; J’veux pas travailler."

5.Adverbused as an intensifier in underlying rhetorical questions, mostly with voilà

"Et v'là t-y pas qu'elle m'en colle une !; Et me voilà pas arrivé sans un kopeck au bercail."

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