zyeuter
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French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From les yeux (“the eyes”) (pronounced /lez‿jø/).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
zyeuter
- (colloquial) to eye; to ogle (to watch); to squint at
- 2014, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83:
- En soulevant son verre, il entrevit les deux filles d’hier qui de loin les zieutaient.
- As he lifted his glass, he caught sight of the two girls from yesterday, who were eyeing them from a distance.
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of zyeuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | zyeuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | zyeutant /zjø.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | zyeuté /zjø.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | zyeute /zjøt/ |
zyeutes /zjøt/ |
zyeute /zjøt/ |
zyeutons /zjø.tɔ̃/ |
zyeutez /zjø.te/ |
zyeutent /zjøt/ |
| imperfect | zyeutais /zjø.tɛ/ |
zyeutais /zjø.tɛ/ |
zyeutait /zjø.tɛ/ |
zyeutions /zjø.tjɔ̃/ |
zyeutiez /zjø.tje/ |
zyeutaient /zjø.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | zyeutai /zjø.te/ |
zyeutas /zjø.ta/ |
zyeuta /zjø.ta/ |
zyeutâmes /zjø.tam/ |
zyeutâtes /zjø.tat/ |
zyeutèrent /zjø.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | zyeuterai /zjø.tʁe/ |
zyeuteras /zjø.tʁa/ |
zyeutera /zjø.tʁa/ |
zyeuterons /zjø.tʁɔ̃/ |
zyeuterez /zjø.tʁe/ |
zyeuteront /zjø.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | zyeuterais /zjø.tʁɛ/ |
zyeuterais /zjø.tʁɛ/ |
zyeuterait /zjø.tʁɛ/ |
zyeuterions /zjø.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zyeuteriez /zjø.tə.ʁje/ |
zyeuteraient /zjø.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | zyeute /zjøt/ |
zyeutes /zjøt/ |
zyeute /zjøt/ |
zyeutions /zjø.tjɔ̃/ |
zyeutiez /zjø.tje/ |
zyeutent /zjøt/ |
| imperfect2 | zyeutasse /zjø.tas/ |
zyeutasses /zjø.tas/ |
zyeutât /zjø.ta/ |
zyeutassions /zjø.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
zyeutassiez /zjø.ta.sje/ |
zyeutassent /zjø.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | zyeute /zjøt/ |
— | zyeutons /zjø.tɔ̃/ |
zyeutez /zjø.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[edit]
- “zyeuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Collins French-English English-French Dictionary