zapper
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]zapper (plural zappers)
- (colloquial) A remote control for a television.
- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
- (colloquial) A device that electrifies or electrocutes.
- Hyponym: bug zapper
- 2005, Robert Wood, Pushing Envelopes, page 51:
- Miranda is not the sort of person to carry a zapper but she has an oar that would cause a dog a lot more grief if it caught it full on.
- (colloquial, figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
- 1989, Microtimes, volume 6, page 140:
- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […]
- 2009, Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love:
- You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper.
- (slang) A microwave oven.
- 2011, Bob Cohn, To Catch a Catch, page 49:
- I hate to spoil your microwave testimonial, but they were actually cooked in the regular oven this morning and just re-heated in the zapper.
Translations
[edit]remote control
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]zapper
- to channel-hop, channel surf
- (figuratively) to dither, change one's opinion rapidly, vacillate
- to skip over
- (informal) to forget
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of zapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | zapper | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | zappant /za.pɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | zappé /za.pe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | zappe /zap/ |
zappes /zap/ |
zappe /zap/ |
zappons /za.pɔ̃/ |
zappez /za.pe/ |
zappent /zap/ |
imperfect | zappais /za.pɛ/ |
zappais /za.pɛ/ |
zappait /za.pɛ/ |
zappions /za.pjɔ̃/ |
zappiez /za.pje/ |
zappaient /za.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | zappai /za.pe/ |
zappas /za.pa/ |
zappa /za.pa/ |
zappâmes /za.pam/ |
zappâtes /za.pat/ |
zappèrent /za.pɛʁ/ | |
future | zapperai /za.pʁe/ |
zapperas /za.pʁa/ |
zappera /za.pʁa/ |
zapperons /za.pʁɔ̃/ |
zapperez /za.pʁe/ |
zapperont /za.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | zapperais /za.pʁɛ/ |
zapperais /za.pʁɛ/ |
zapperait /za.pʁɛ/ |
zapperions /za.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zapperiez /za.pə.ʁje/ |
zapperaient /za.pʁɛ/ | |
(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 | zappe /zap/ |
zappes /zap/ |
zappe /zap/ |
zappions /za.pjɔ̃/ |
zappiez /za.pje/ |
zappent /zap/ |
imperfect2 | zappasse /za.pas/ |
zappasses /za.pas/ |
zappât /za.pa/ |
zappassions /za.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
zappassiez /za.pa.sje/ |
zappassent /za.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | zappe /zap/ |
— | zappons /za.pɔ̃/ |
zappez /za.pe/ |
— | |
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
[edit]- “zapper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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