zester
English
Etymology
Noun
zester (plural zesters)
- A kitchen implement used to remove the zest of citrus fruit.
Hypernyms
- (kitchen implement): bar tool, implement, kitchen implement
Translations
kitchen implement
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zɛs.te/
Audio (Paris): (file)
Verb
zester
- to zest
Conjugation
Conjugation of zester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | zester | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | zestant /zɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | zesté /zɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | zeste /zɛst/ |
zestes /zɛst/ |
zeste /zɛst/ |
zestons /zɛs.tɔ̃/ |
zestez /zɛs.te/ |
zestent /zɛst/ |
| imperfect | zestais /zɛs.tɛ/ |
zestais /zɛs.tɛ/ |
zestait /zɛs.tɛ/ |
zestions /zɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
zestiez /zɛs.tje/ |
zestaient /zɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | zestai /zɛs.te/ |
zestas /zɛs.ta/ |
zesta /zɛs.ta/ |
zestâmes /zɛs.tam/ |
zestâtes /zɛs.tat/ |
zestèrent /zɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | zesterai /zɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
zesteras /zɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
zestera /zɛs.tə.ʁa/ |
zesterons /zɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
zesterez /zɛs.tə.ʁe/ |
zesteront /zɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | zesterais /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
zesterais /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
zesterait /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
zesterions /zɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zesteriez /zɛs.tə.ʁje/ |
zesteraient /zɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | zeste /zɛst/ |
zestes /zɛst/ |
zeste /zɛst/ |
zestions /zɛs.tjɔ̃/ |
zestiez /zɛs.tje/ |
zestent /zɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | zestasse /zɛs.tas/ |
zestasses /zɛs.tas/ |
zestât /zɛs.ta/ |
zestassions /zɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
zestassiez /zɛs.ta.sje/ |
zestassent /zɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | zeste /zɛst/ |
— | zestons /zɛs.tɔ̃/ |
zestez /zɛs.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “zester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.