I enquired of a passer-by which road to take.
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Passer-by
//ˈpɑː.sə.baɪ//
Synonyms for "passer-by" (2 found)
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87 translations across 52 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kalimtar noun (a person who is passing by)
Arabic
2 entries- مَارَّة noun (a person who is passing by)
- مَارّ noun (a person who is passing by)
Armenian
2 entries- անցորդ noun (a person who is passing by)
- անցվոր noun (a person who is passing by)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- yoldan keçən noun (a person who is passing by)
- yoldan ötən noun (a person who is passing by)
- yolçu noun (a person who is passing by)
Belarusian
4 entries- міна́к noun (a person who is passing by)
- міна́чка noun (a person who is passing by)
- прахо́жая noun (a person who is passing by)
- прахо́жы noun (a person who is passing by)
Bulgarian
2 entries- минува́ч noun (a person who is passing by)
- минува́чка noun (a person who is passing by)
Catalan
3 entries- passant noun (a person who is passing by)
- transeünt noun (a person who is passing by)
- vianant noun (a person who is passing by)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 路人 noun (a person who is passing by)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 路人 noun (a person who is passing by)
Czech
1 entries- kolemjdoucí noun (a person who is passing by)
Danish
1 entries- forbipasserende noun (a person who is passing by)
Dutch
3 entries- omstander noun (a person who is passing by)
- passant noun (a person who is passing by)
- voorbijganger noun (a person who is passing by)
Estonian
1 entries- mööduja noun (a person who is passing by)
Finnish
1 entries- ohikulkija noun (a person who is passing by)
French
3 entries- badaud noun (a person who is passing by)
- passant noun (a person who is passing by)
- passante noun (a person who is passing by)
Galician
1 entries- transeúnte noun (a person who is passing by)
Georgian
1 entries- გამვლელი noun (a person who is passing by)
German
2 entries- Passant noun (a person who is passing by)
- Passantin noun (a person who is passing by)
Greek
1 entries- διαβάτης noun (a person who is passing by)
Hebrew
1 entries- עובר אורח \ עוֹבֵר אֹרַח noun (a person who is passing by)
Hindi
1 entries- राहगीर noun (a person who is passing by)
Hungarian
2 entries- arra menő/járó noun (a person who is passing by)
- járókelő noun (a person who is passing by)
Ido
2 entries- pasanto noun (a person who is passing by)
- pasero noun (a person who is passing by)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- رَهْگُذَر noun (a person who is passing by)
Italian
1 entries- passante noun (a person who is passing by)
Japanese
1 entries- 通行人 noun (a person who is passing by)
Kazakh
2 entries- жолаушы noun (a person who is passing by)
- жүргінші noun (a person who is passing by)
Korean
1 entries- 통행인 noun (a person who is passing by)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- жолоочу noun (a person who is passing by)
- каттоочу noun (a person who is passing by)
Latvian
2 entries- garāmgājēja noun (a person who is passing by)
- garāmgājējs noun (a person who is passing by)
Lithuanian
1 entries- praeivis noun (a person who is passing by)
Macedonian
2 entries- минувач noun (a person who is passing by)
- минувачка noun (a person who is passing by)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forbipasserende noun (a person who is passing by)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forbipasserande noun (a person who is passing by)
Occitan
1 entries- passejant noun (a person who is passing by)
Polish
1 entries- przechodzień noun (a person who is passing by)
Portuguese
1 entries- transeunte noun (a person who is passing by)
Romanian
2 entries- trecătoare noun (a person who is passing by)
- trecător noun (a person who is passing by)
Russian
2 entries- прохо́жая noun (a person who is passing by)
- прохо́жий noun (a person who is passing by)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- neach-dol-seachad noun (a person who is passing by)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- prólaznica noun (a person who is passing by)
- prólaznīk noun (a person who is passing by)
- про́лазница noun (a person who is passing by)
- про́лазнӣк noun (a person who is passing by)
Slovak
1 entries- okoloidúci noun (a person who is passing by)
Slovene
2 entries- mimoidoča noun (a person who is passing by)
- mimoidoči noun (a person who is passing by)
Spanish
3 entries- paseante noun (a person who is passing by)
- transeúnte noun (a person who is passing by)
- viandante noun (a person who is passing by)
Swahili
1 entries- mwenda noun (a person who is passing by)
Swedish
2 entries- förbigående noun (a person who is passing by)
- förbipasserande noun (a person who is passing by)
Tajik
1 entries- раҳгузар noun (a person who is passing by)
Turkish
1 entries- yoldan geçen noun (a person who is passing by)
Ukrainian
4 entries- перехо́жа noun (a person who is passing by)
- перехо́жий noun (a person who is passing by)
- прохо́жа noun (a person who is passing by)
- прохо́жий noun (a person who is passing by)
Urdu
2 entries- راہْ گِیر noun (a person who is passing by)
- راہْگِیر noun (a person who is passing by)
Uzbek
2 entries- oʻtkinchi noun (a person who is passing by)
- yoʻlovchi noun (a person who is passing by)
Vietnamese
1 entries- khách qua đường noun (a person who is passing by)
Sample sentences
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An innocent passer-by was shot dead in broad daylight.
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Tom was rescued by a passer-by.
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She smiled at a passer-by.
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