goûter
See also: gouter
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French gouster, from Old French goster, inherited from Latin gustāre. Compare the borrowed prefixed verb déguster.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
goûter
- to taste, to try (to sample something orally)
- Synonym: déguster
- Je goûterai ta tarte demain car j’ai goûté un fameux tiramisu tout à l’heure.
- I will taste your pie tomorrow, since I have just tasted an excellent tiramisu.
- (Belgium, Quebec) to taste like
- Cette tarte goûte la cannelle. ― This pie tastes like cinnamon.
- (figurative) to approve, to appreciate
- Le public goûte peu ces sortes d’ouvrages.
- The public has little taste for these sorts of works.
- Après tant de troubles le pays goûtait un calme profond.
- After so much unrest, the country enjoyed a period of profound calm.
- 1857, Phillippe Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny, Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, page 472:
- Réunies en volumes, ces lettres ont été goûtées en Angleterre presque autant qu’aux États-Unis, et ont eu plusieurs éditions.
- Collected in volumes, these letters were appreciated in England almost as much as they were in the US, and several editions were published.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of goûter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | goûter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | goûtant /ɡu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | goûté /ɡu.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | goûte /ɡut/ |
goûtes /ɡut/ |
goûte /ɡut/ |
goûtons /ɡu.tɔ̃/ |
goûtez /ɡu.te/ |
goûtent /ɡut/ |
imperfect | goûtais /ɡu.tɛ/ |
goûtais /ɡu.tɛ/ |
goûtait /ɡu.tɛ/ |
goûtions /ɡu.tjɔ̃/ |
goûtiez /ɡu.tje/ |
goûtaient /ɡu.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | goûtai /ɡu.te/ |
goûtas /ɡu.ta/ |
goûta /ɡu.ta/ |
goûtâmes /ɡu.tam/ |
goûtâtes /ɡu.tat/ |
goûtèrent /ɡu.tɛʁ/ | |
future | goûterai /ɡu.tʁe/ |
goûteras /ɡu.tʁa/ |
goûtera /ɡu.tʁa/ |
goûterons /ɡu.tʁɔ̃/ |
goûterez /ɡu.tʁe/ |
goûteront /ɡu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | goûterais /ɡu.tʁɛ/ |
goûterais /ɡu.tʁɛ/ |
goûterait /ɡu.tʁɛ/ |
goûterions /ɡu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
goûteriez /ɡu.tə.ʁje/ |
goûteraient /ɡu.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 | goûte /ɡut/ |
goûtes /ɡut/ |
goûte /ɡut/ |
goûtions /ɡu.tjɔ̃/ |
goûtiez /ɡu.tje/ |
goûtent /ɡut/ |
imperfect2 | goûtasse /ɡu.tas/ |
goûtasses /ɡu.tas/ |
goûtât /ɡu.ta/ |
goûtassions /ɡu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
goûtassiez /ɡu.ta.sje/ |
goûtassent /ɡu.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | goûte /ɡut/ |
— | goûtons /ɡu.tɔ̃/ |
goûtez /ɡu.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). |
Derived terms edit
- dégoûter
- goûter le ciel (Quebec)
- goûteur
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → German: goutieren
Noun edit
goûter m (plural goûters)
- nuncheon
- (France) meal similar to breakfast taken around 4 P.M
- Synonym: quatre-heures
Further reading edit
- “goûter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “goûter” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “goûter” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.